Timeline for answer to What’s Next for Curation by Stephen Ostermiller
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| yesterday | comment | added | Security Hound | How is a system built or what will be the criteria if only 10% of answers can be voted on? | |
| yesterday | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller Mod | StackOverflow is the knowledge repository that powers search engines. I'd rather get recommendations from a well moderated site with experience and input from several experts than from some random site that puts up a half-baked top ten list. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Dharman Mod | Software recommendation questions can be useful, but the problems you listed are big ones. And if a question is written slightly differently, asking how to solve a problem, then it doesn't need to be closed anymore. So I don't know if it's a good idea to allow questions like: "what is the best programming language in 2026" or "which tutorial is up-to-date with PHP 8.5". These are questions best answered by a search engine, not by a library of information. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Cerbrus | Library and tool recommendations age like milk. Those questions are in no way valuable to a repository of knowledge. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | l4mpi | "I attribute a lot of the early SO success to the large number of product recommendation questions [and] a lot of the decline of SO to the community decision to disallow such questions." Incorrect from my perspective - I've been using SO as a dev resource since roughly mid 2009 (passively until I signed up late 2011), and cannot remember a single time I found value in a tool recommendation question. I also don't get the point of limiting answer DVs and it seems like an extremely bad idea no matter if that's supposed to be about recommendations or all answers; both can be wrong or harmful. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller Mod | I edited the answer to focus on library and tool recommendations | |
| 2 days ago | history | edited | Stephen OstermillerMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| 2 days ago | comment | added | S.L. Barth is on codidact.com | @Thingamabobs Yes, SoftwareRecs is about products. If Stephen Ostermiller meant to allow recommending specific programming tools, most notably libraries and frameworks, then I would understand this answer. The guardrails applied in the Software Recommendations SE would make a good starting point for the guardrails that "tool/framework recommendation questions" need. | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Thingamabobs | @S.L.Barthisoncodidact.com just another SE-site I wasn't aware it existed. However this answer seems like it adresses programming libs in programming languages which the other seems to be about finished programs/add-ons and so on. Dont they? | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | S.L. Barth is on codidact.com | Erm, we have Software Recommendations and Hardware Recommendations . Or do I misunderstand this answer? | |
| 2 days ago | comment | added | Thingamabobs | By the time the question is a year old, require 1000 rep to answer it.-- this might prevent people from just signing in to advertise their own products. I think a tag [tool-recommendation] for the Advice section of this new feature would be cool. But I also see this getting abused. In any case a rep threshold makes sense, especially to prevent a bot flood hitting us. | |
| 2 days ago | history | answered | Stephen OstermillerMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |