Timeline for Are requests for arbitrary lines from novels on-topic?
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 6:44 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | @tchrist: I love that quotation (which I've never seen before). Thanks for posting it in such an appropriate context. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 6:05 | comment | added | user66974 | @EdwinAshworth - "People giving answers (rather than 'comments') to 'the question behind the question'" are following ELU guidelines according to their own sensibilities, not your own, obviously. There is not rule on ELU, as of now, that doesn't allow users to disagree and the fact that we can VTC as well as VTR means that we are "allowed" to hold different views on matters dealt with here. | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 4:11 | comment | added | tchrist Mod | There is always a place for jury nullification. “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” —G.K. Chesterton | |
| Aug 22, 2016 at 0:07 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | The most interesting thing I found when I just looked over the question under the microscope here was that no-one seems to have explicitly mentioned the contrastive cliche about there being no stupid questions only stupid answers Which the OP hadn't asked for anyway, so it's disingenuous to excuse the question on the basis that it leads to something broader. I really like Yoichi, and would much rather have just looked the other way. But I kinda feel obliged to closevote, albeit reluctantly. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 23:20 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I think that people with this view should edit such a question to generate what they consider to be an acceptable one. People giving answers (rather than 'comments') to 'the question behind the question' are not following ELU guidelines. | |
| Aug 21, 2016 at 22:49 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |