Timeline for Proposed "soft-landing" for "what camera" questions.
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| Jun 3, 2011 at 19:44 | comment | added | mattdm | Please see meta.photo.stackexchange.com/questions/1037/…. And take a look at the history of these types of questions on the site. Again, not equipment-recommendation in general, but "new user; what camera" in specific. The response is almost always negative. Random but representative example: photo.stackexchange.com/questions/487/…. I think we can and should do better. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 19:07 | comment | added | jrista Mod | Why close them at all? If the person provides enough information to get a useful answer, why not just answer them? If the question initially lacks enough information, but it is provided on request, why should they be closed? They should only be closed if they are literally unanswerable...and again, that has to be determined on a case-by-case basis. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 19:01 | comment | added | mattdm | Note that my suggestion is not to add more meta-information in an out-of-band location. It is to quickly close "I'm new; what camera?" questions but in a way that nicely actually provides helpful information. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | mattdm | I am not suggesting making equipment recommendation questions in general off-topic. I am very specifically trying to address "I'm new; what camera?" questions. I think this can be addressed much better than the way it usually is here. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:37 | history | answered | jristaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |