Timeline for If SO had a standard off-topic reason for code review requests, how should it be worded?
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 13:21 | comment | added | rolfl | I completely agree with Robert. I use both Stack Overflow, and Code Review, and adding a new, complicated close reason to Stack Overflow will create more uncertainty, and mess. The issuse is not about teaching SO users when to recommend Code Review. The issue is educating them to use the close reasons they already have. I frankly think that Duga has done quote well, and the issues is not one of SO folk needing something different, the issue is one of there simply being so many SO users that it is inevitable that this will continue to happen - regardless of what close reasons are available | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 7:01 | comment | added | 200_success Mod | We've tried educating users one at a time as Duga reports them. It's futile. Sometime it even escalates into minor flame wars when an SO user accuses us of being pedantic or even wrong. You're essentially saying that the status quo is fine, and we think it isn't. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 6:46 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2015 at 6:43 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Then change my wording from "Migration" to "Suggested Migration" (which is what your new close reason essentially is), and everything I said still holds. The purpose of close reasons is to close questions, not kill memes, and people suggesting that bad questions be moved to CR is an educational problem, not a technical one. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 6:42 | comment | added | 200_success Mod | On a technical level, you're right that there is a Too Broad close reason. However, it is unintuitive, which has led to the harmful and bogus "belongs on Code Review" custom close reason. You haven't suggested a better way to kill the meme. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 6:41 | comment | added | 200_success Mod | We already recognize that an SO → CR migration path would be disastrous given the current situation. | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 6:34 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |