Timeline for Top $k$ List of Reasons to Close a Question Immediately
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 7:32 | comment | added | Nick Cox | @gung Most of the answers in this thread are about asking questions the wrong way and flag elements that don't help a question while not necessarily being immediately fatal. For example, "I need help" usually flags a naive or unclear question. Sometimes the poster is so new to forums that it's not yet obvious that almost everyone asking needs help too. Sometimes the poster doesn't yet have a specific question. But a title starting "I need help" doesn't rule out a good question following. It can just be someone wanting to make their question human or opening a conversation. | |
| Jun 23, 2018 at 6:42 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 23, 2018 at 6:40 | comment | added | Nick Cox | The main suggestion here is that such a question may be a bad question. If people stop at the title here and don't read further, they will miss the explanation of why. I've made some small edits to move closer to your point. (I've sometimes quoted this answer when a question on CV is essentially nothing but an output dump, but conversely there is no need to quote it if there is a clear statistical question.) | |
| Jun 22, 2018 at 20:45 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica Mod | Your answer here has been referenced in a discussion about whether the interpretation of statistical output is on topic. My position is that in general it should be considered on topic; but I recognize that such questions could still be unclear or too broad & may be closed for those reasons. I take that to be your point here. I just don't see anything specific to output interpretation questions as necessarily making them any more or less likely to be unclear or too broad than questions on any other subject. | |
| Jan 22, 2017 at 11:19 | history | edited | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2017 at 10:28 | history | answered | Nick Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |