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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by bane on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:24AM (#6063073)
Agreed, whenever I happen across a closed question, I always sit there and scratch my head "but that's a great question!". I think it's a similar phenomenon to the over deletionist problem on Wikipedia.

There's certainly questions on SO that should be moderated away, and WP articles that should be deleted. But there's so many of both kinds that are obviously genuinely good one has to wonder at the motivations of the people closing them.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by zacharypinter on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:16AM (#6064174)
A while back I started noting the times I came across a stack overflow link that I was interested in and then sad to see closed.

Here's the list:

https://pinboard.in/u:zpinter/t:stackoverflow/

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by darkarmani on Thursday July 18, 2013 @05:15PM (#6066566)
Wow. This one pretty much has 7500 upvotes (counting favorites since they closed it). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

With 822,000 page views, I guess it wasn't hard to get 5 votes to close it.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by peteretep on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:29AM (#6063836)
That's confirmation bias - you "happen across" them when they're linked to from here
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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by nknighthb on Thursday July 18, 2013 @11:11AM (#6064140)
I happen across them multiple times a week via Google. When I was actually active on SO, I encountered them daily. This and the more general malevolent attitude of Stack Exchange toward the "community" they hypocritically champion is why I pretty much gave up on SO.
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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by maaaats on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:22AM (#6063412)
> whenever I happen across a closed question, I always sit there and scratch my head "but that's a great question!"

So you're saying that every question ever closed that you have seen, should not have been closed? Then I think SO's moderators and users are not the problem.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by eitland on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:06AM (#6063668)
Now you are jumping to conclusions.

It depends a while lot on your search skills I guess.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by maaaats on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:23AM (#6063799)
Am I? Read my quote, it's exactly what's being said.
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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by bane on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:12PM (#6067174)
No it's not. You even quoted me.
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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by lnanek2 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:06AM (#6063679)
Or the moderators are just doing a bad job. I have the same experience as him.
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