Timeline for Are we merging questions that are significantly different?
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 10:26 | comment | added | Joanne C Mod | @MichaelClark - Don't worry, I didn't take offense or concern about the tone of the question. That is, after all, part of the purpose of the meta site: to discuss this very thing. The concerns on merging (and question age) are valid, so I'll try to keep that in mind before doing a merge in the future. As for shopping, well, I tend to dislike the obviously lazy ones, but ones like these don't fit that concept. I don't generally act to close any of them, though, unless there appears to be a general move to close. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 5:01 | comment | added | Michael C | Specifically, my greatest frustration is that there is no way of indicating a merged answer was written in response to a more specific version of the more general question. This is true especially when the specifics of the more detailed question may alter the correct answer significantly. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 4:58 | comment | added | Michael C | Thanks for the response. My question here may appear, at first glance, to be a strong criticism of your decision to merge the two questions that precipitated this discussion. That was not and is not my intent. Please don't feel that I am questioning your decision to merge these specific questions so much as I am questioning the reasoning by the community behind the idea that specific hardware comparison questions are by definition "shopping" questions. If shopping questions, so defined, are taboo on SE, perhaps Photography as a subject is not a good fit for SE. | |
| Jun 18, 2013 at 0:37 | history | answered | Joanne CMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |