Timeline for Is this question about Percy Shelley’s adulation for poetry now clear enough to be reopened?
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| Sep 13, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | user175 | @Rand al'Thor But why do you think so? | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 18:59 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Canada Well, as I said, I think it does fall below the bar. But I'm just one user. If you can find five users who agree with you that it's above the bar, then the question might be able to get reopened. | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 6:40 | comment | added | user175 | @Randal'Thor But my question wouldn't fall below the bar? | |
| Sep 13, 2017 at 5:46 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Canada The bar for what counts as POB is lower on this site than some others, but it still exists: there are questions about literature which would be too opinion-based to work as SE questions. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 23:48 | comment | added | user175 | Thanks. I agree with your 1st paragraph, and edited my post. But asserting my question as 'opinion-based' doesn't appear convincing for a website for literature, which is inherently opinion-based? | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 15:24 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Hamlet Well, just because authors and critics spend a lot of time talking about something, doesn't mean it can fit well into the framework of a Stack Exchange question :-) But I'm not trying to make any kind of general assertion here about a class of questions, just saying that this particular question (as it stands, or with the title fixed but without further edits) falls below the POB line. Does it sound like I'm proposing a "test for these sorts of questions"? | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 15:21 | comment | added | user111 | We really shouldn't be laying out a test for these sorts of questions at this point. We've only received one question, so we don't really have a good idea of what works and what doesn't. At this point we're making up a rule on the basis of some vague hand-waving rather than actual evidence. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 15:16 | comment | added | user111 | Authors and critics spend a lot of time talking about the merits of various mediums/genres. There should be a way for this site to participate in that conversation. I do agree that this question does not represent a good way for us to participate in the conversation. But I can think of a bunch of questions that would lead to constructive conversations. Perhaps a better formatted, quotes from Shelly's original text and not a summary, "why does Shelly say [this particular thing]" about poetry question would work well. | |
| Sep 12, 2017 at 14:23 | history | answered | Rand al'ThorMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |