Timeline for Are "What Genre is This" questions on-topic?
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| Feb 12, 2011 at 21:38 | comment | added | Adrian McCarthy | I don't understand the argument against looking at data on how the community responds to a certain type of question. (I don't know the backstory on the Gaming decision.) If a category of question is getting community interest and involvement, that seems like strong evidence that the community wants it. Over-constraining the topics is stifling and can lead to stagnation. If a category isn't somebody's cup of tea, they're certainly welcome to ignore those questions. I'd prefer to have a minimal number of "banned" topics and let the community decide organically. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 22:49 | comment | added | sjohnston | Also, we shouldn't rely on traffic stats to indicate the quality of a particular question type. Game recommendation questions on Gaming.SE also garnered lots of views, responses and votes, but were ultimately deemed bad for the community and banned. | |
| Feb 11, 2011 at 22:47 | comment | added | sjohnston | I think my opinion has softened somewhat since I originally posted this. Writers.SE is a more subjective SE site than I'm used to, and I've come to better accept that. If such a question received multiple high quality answers - offering a genre and the reasoning behind it - I would be inclined to leave them open. However, they're still unlikely to be useful to the next person who wonders "what's my story's genre?" Perhaps it would be more useful to ask questions like "what are common properties of genre X" that would teach people to identify their genre for themselves? | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 1:06 | history | answered | Adrian McCarthy | CC BY-SA 2.5 |