Questions tagged [close-reasons]
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Is this baby squirrel question on-topic?
What should I do with a newborn squirrel found in parking lot?
Is this question on-topic? It seems to have little relationship to the outdoors other than the fact that squirrels are animals that ...
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Should we have a 'blatantly off-topic' close reason?
I'm aware of this question:
Why is there no close reason for 'off topic'?
Over there it's suggested that blatantly off-topic questions are closed by entering a custom close reason. I can see ...
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Should/can we make it more obvious to new users that we don't want shopping questions or certain types of travel questions?
Recently, we've had a couple of ill-received questions that asked for shopping advice:
Warm jacket with several pockets for travel: suggestions?
Travelling to the Kruger National Park
Both of these ...
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Why is there no close reason for 'off topic'?
I found the next question:
Any experience in Street Marketing?
However, I wanted to close it since it's about coffee shop marketing, and not related to great outdoors. What reason should I have used ...
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Can we delete the closed questions that were "closed as cross-site posts?"
We have three questions that were closed as cross-site posts, meaning that someone posted the same question on more than one site.
https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/16078/how-does-...
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Is the off site resource close reason valid on this site?
There is a close reason on Stack Overflow that says,
Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as ...
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How can we best customize our "price-shopping" close reason, and clarify how to use it?
NOTE: My purpose is not to close more questions, it's to clarify how to handle the questions consistently.
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The "price-...
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What is a shopping question part 5 (How can I solve problem Y? Answer: You should buy X)
Sometimes users will ask How can I solve problem Y and then the other answers will recommend product Y, are these off or on-topic?
For example,
What's the best or easiest way to attach a loop ...
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What is a shopping question part 4 (What features should I look for in X?)
Are questions asking what features ones should look for in a product or comparing one set of features to another on or off topic?
These 4 are the only questions like this that I know of that are ...
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What is a shopping question part 3 (What X should I buy?)
Are questions asking which product to buy off or on topic?
For example,(first 2 open, rest closed)
What are the suitable choices of crampons for Scarpa Charmoz GTX Women boots?
What Rope to purchase?...
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What is a shopping question part 2 (Does X exist?)
Are questions that ask if a product exists off or on topic?
Usually in these cases the person already knows what they need to solve their problem, they just need to know if it actually exists
For ...
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What is a shopping question part 1 (Where can I buy X?)
Are questions where a user asks Where can I buy X? on or off topic?
Where can I buy X? (all examples open but the last 3)
Where to buy ethanol in Canada?
Where can I buy bear banger launcher and ...
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What exactly is a "shopping" question?
We keep going round and round and round on this, and don't seem to be able to decide on what is, and what is not a shopping question.
I have split this into 5 parts so we can vote on each ...
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What is Unclear about the semi-permanent campsite question?
I thought the semi-permanent campsite question was perfectly clear. The only clarifying details they could have added were whether they wanted to hire professionals or do-it-themselves, and how much ...
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Should the motivation of a question and not the activity determine whether it's on topic or not?
The tag wiki for the knots tag currently reads "utility of or method of tying knots for use in any of the following activities" followed by a bullet list of a few obviously outdoor-related activities.
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How should we consistently handle very similar questions from people who want to learn something for the first time?
We have two similar questions looking for advice about doing a specific activity for the first time. One is closed, the other open, and I'm not sure I understand the difference.
I'm going to quote the ...
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Should I reevaluate my mental model for closing broad questions?
I originally voted to close a question asking for things to do on a trip to Quepos, Costa Rica, with teenagers. There were some general ideas, and it had tags, but nothing was really detailed or ...
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Price-shopping assistance - disagree on the Super Kodiak question
This question https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/questions/13590/all-the-bear-archery-super-kodiak-models-with-a-64-amo-length was set on hold because of price-shopping assistance.
put on hold as ...
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Is a question only about the health effects of cookware on topic?
This question from 2013 was recently brought forward. Its only purpose is to find out if using a certain type of cookware, in this case titanium, is safe for the body. It's seeking academic, peer-...
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everything seems in scope here
I'm a regular over on fitness.stackexchange.com, which I think has an opinion for being rather hard line for what's on topic and what isn't, so maybe consider that I come from that camp.
I've ...
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Close answer because of "length or low quality"
There is the option to vote for a close because of length or low quality. What is wrong with answers like this one. It's short but useful therefore not really of low quality. What's wrong with those ...
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Is primarily opinion based a valid close reason for TGO?
From a discussion on another thread: here
Is the close reason
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert
experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost
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Recommend off site resource off topic?
Should recommend off site resource questions be off topic (like in SO)?
I've seen this question. It could be easily reworded into a question that could be answered on site. So should it?
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Overlap of questions between us and travel.stackexchange.com
I've seen quite a few questions asking for travel advise, though about trekking, it feels like these questions would be a better fit for https://travel.stackexchange.com/.
Would it be a good idea to ...
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Should we get a closing reason for questions that ask for medical advice?
There was this question recently which was asking for medical advice about a situation where it was not really clear if it may need immediate medical advice. On the bicycles.SX site there is a special ...
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Voting to close questions that are poor fits for Q&A - let's cross a potentially chilly river
I was voted to close one question on the site that related to crossing a chilly river in a survival scenario. If I have to cross an icy, flowing river, what are some ways I can cross safely?
One of ...
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How far to go with too localized?
There are a few questions which I feel may be too localized, but I'm not quite ready to use the close vote. A few examples.
Are there beaches on the East Coast (US) where one can camp without a ...
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