Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow

Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by aggieben on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:16PM (#6067927)

The post was closed because it is obviously off-topic as stated in the FAQ. We've recently implemented a substantial overhaul of the closing mechanisms, and so you'll see on that question (http://stackoverflow.com/q/2380148) that there is now a close reason that is very specific:

  "Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource
  are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract 
  opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem 
  and what has been done so far to solve it." – George Stocker

The question is still there and is still helpful to anyone who happens to land on it from some search; it just cant' be contributed to anymore unless the question is edited to raise its quality and the community reopens it (it doesn't take a diamond-mod to reopen). I can't tell that it was ever deleted, although it could be that a status change was backfilled after the flags updates.

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Re:Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed... by viraptor on Saturday July 20, 2013 @05:06PM (#6076576)

It was not closed. It was deleted. Will was a diamond mod at the time he did it. After posting this message I voted to undelete which is probably why it was just closed by the time you got to it.

But doesn't that illustrate the problem enough? You don't see the history, mod's actions are unknown now. I agree that it can be closed according to the current rules. I was talking only about the deletion.

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