Timeline for Are questions about theoretical computers on-topic?
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:27 | comment | added | Kaveh | @Gilles, what I meant is: we need examples of questions similar to these which are not in the gray area and are off-topic and if we clarify why they are off-topic we can then use that as a base for deciding about questions in the gray area. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:26 | comment | added | Kaveh | (The idea behind the first criteria is the difference between science and engineering.) | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:25 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | The issue is whether they're on-topic, or which ones are on-topic. Neither David nor D.W. nor I has a firm position on that at the moment. There's a gray area, we're trying to figure out where to draw a line. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:23 | comment | added | Kaveh | @Gilles, I see. Maybe you, David, D.W. or someone else should clarify the issue these questions raise here. That way we can narrow down the problem and adopt a policy that addresses the problem without banning questions we may not want to ban. My understanding was that this is a slippery slope issue and if we allow them why not allow programming questions. My answer to that was that we don't want to duplicate SO. I should dig at old meta posts to recall the rational we had for banning programming questions. | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:18 | history | edited | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:17 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Mod | I agree with your first criterion, but not with the second one. What SO considers on-topic, and what SO tends to answer, are not relevant here. (For example there are whole classes of questions that are unambiguously computer science and tend to be accepted on SO, including many undergraduate topics such as “draw a finite automaton”, “write a CFG for this language”, etc.) | |
| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:17 | history | edited | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 23:12 | history | answered | Kaveh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |