After reaching 500 rep I kinda started doing some reviews every now and then and often stumble across questions that ask for the best way of accomplishing something.
The questions are usually phrased like this:
- What's the best way to trim a string?
- What's the best way to make an HTTP request in C++?
- What's the best library to do this and that?
To me these kind of questions appear primarily opinion-based. Everyone has his way of doing things, some favor other approaches to solutions than others do.
Most of these questions are either duplicated or off-topic but a fair amount is still okay. Some are still new and I used to flag them for being primarily opinion-based. However in the past some of my flags were rated disputed, so I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here or missing something? On what criteria can I decide if they are primarily opinion based?
Just to be clear, I don't just flag every question asking for a good or the best way of doing something. There are obvious cases where a question can be answered with the best or only acceptable way. So it's also dependent on the situation of course.
Example
I flagged this question for being primarily opinion based: How to Decrypt TCP Traffic Using Wireshark?How to Decrypt TCP Traffic Using Wireshark? and the flag got rated disputed. The OP asks:
What is the best way to go about finding queries of PostgreSQL?
Even if I'm not an expert in this area I felt like the way he asked could result in opinion based answers or discussion. So I flagged it.
