Timeline for Is it required for a question to apply personally to the asker in order to be considered on-topic?
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| Mar 6, 2015 at 18:59 | comment | added | BrenBarn | I agree with Ben Miller's first comment to this answer. If the answer is "you need to review the contract/talk to the landlord/hire a lawyer", then that is the answer. If a better answer could be given with more information, comment asking for more information. Either way, give the best answer you can given the available information, or close as unclear if there is too little information to make any reasonable attempt. The problem is if the question lacks pertinent information; the reason for the lack of information is not relevant. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 16:35 | comment | added | Ben Miller | @JoeTaxpayer I think I agree, but rather than take up any more comment space here replying, I've written my own answer. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:55 | comment | added | Ben Miller | For the "Defaulting on early termination" or "value of credit score" questions, the fact that the "OP will just say those aren't important" doesn't mean that the question is unanswerable. Remember, your goal in answering the question is to give the best answer you can, not to give the answer that the OP wants to hear. This is why it is okay for a question to have an agenda. The voting will ensure that the best answer is near the top, even if the OP doesn't like it. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Ben Miller | @JoeTaxpayer I think I have misread some of this answer, so I'm going to delete one of my earlier comments and restate it. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 15:20 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica Mod | @BenMiller - mhoran quoted your question "does not apply to the OP" but went on to say that "[these] are ones that are either highly speculative, or seem to be looking for a debate." In other words, there are question in the 'do no apply' category, but are left, as good questions. It's when the other issues come into play they are voted to close. It seems to me you'd like "not apply to OP" and "hypothetical" to not be cited as a close reason, and this logic has me agreeing with you. It would take mhoran's other reasons to prompt a close. Agree? | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 12:43 | comment | added | Ben Miller | These may all be bad questions, but the reason they are bad is not that they don't apply to the OP. If you aren't given enough info to answer the question, vote "unclear what you are asking." But don't state that the reason is that they are not allowed to ask the question because it is not about them. | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 12:25 | history | edited | JTP - Apologise to MonicaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2015 at 10:40 | history | answered | mhoran_psprep | CC BY-SA 3.0 |