Timeline for Should moderators single-handedly close questions based on their personal/subjective opinion?
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| Mar 29, 2022 at 7:17 | comment | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | @JJJ I am arguing that questions should be closed by 5 close votes. Privilege to close questions should be reserved for extreme cases. Moderators are human and cannot be fully objective about what is speculative and what is not. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 5:25 | comment | added | user20276 | @JJJ: I acknowledge site policy. But then the boundaries of what is considered research and what is not are very very tight on Politics SE. Maybe I am spoiled by other sites like Physics SE and Stackoverflow SE, where there is also the "no original research" rule, but where some range of deduction is policy-compliant. But I understand that this is because mathematical deduction is more stringent. Maybe this simply isn't my site/my subject. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 5:11 | comment | added | JJJ Mod | @RogerVadim questions get closed because they are off-topic, in other words they don't meet the site requirements for questions. You can disagree with the requirements themselves or you can debate whether they aren't met in any specific question. I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. Are you arguing we should be more lenient on speculative questions? I disagree with that though you are free to raise to discuss it (in a new meta question). As for the current question, I don't think it meets the requirements we have at this moment. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 5:07 | comment | added | Wag the mainstream media dog | If moderator thinks that s question is problematic, they may use the comments section to suggest improvements. Indeed, this seems to be standard practice in other SE communities. Overall, there is a clear fault with the logic "I know better, so I will close it, and then you can democratically reopen it, if you can." | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 5:06 | comment | added | JJJ Mod | @oliver to create such models sounds more like something you'd publish in a news paper or maybe in an academic journal. Stack Exchange isn't really meant for original research. See for example this Wikipedia page which explains about original research on their platform (I couldn't find a relevant meta post). To ask such an analysis, I think, is beyond the scope of our site. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 5:02 | comment | added | user20276 | Correction in the last sentence: "if we don't do that responsibly" | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 4:58 | comment | added | user20276 | I disagree, because independent of whether Putin is crazy or not, one can model his behavior and may come to the conlusion that 9 out of 10 models are incompatible with mental insanity. BTW I see many speculations here in answers on Politics SE, which largely go unpunished. But maybe I am misundertanding the site objective, which I am fine with if someone else defines it. Then again, I repeat that if "Politics" is just about observable facts, this is a waste of available brain power, because man is made for constructing models, and if we don't we are easily deceived by people like Putin. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 4:49 | comment | added | JJJ Mod | @oliver I don't think this site is the right place to arbitrate such vague allegations in the media. If there's a very specific claim you want to verify, it might be on-topic on Skeptics. In this case though, your question asks about speculation on how / whether Putin's actions can be rationalized. We don't know what his end goal is and we don't know what information he uses in his decision making. That's why I think it can only be answered by speculation. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 4:39 | comment | added | user20276 | That Putin is an idiot/lunatic was an allegation of the media, not mine. My question was mainly concerned with the media fulfilling their duty as a fourth power or not. I asked this on the grounds of the so-called "Ockham's Razor": always choose those models of reality which require the least arbitrariness. My question included examples of why "Putin is an idiot" is somehow on the same level as "The weather is made by the gods" because there are better explanations, which I wanted to get feedback on by the community. | |
| Mar 29, 2022 at 4:10 | history | answered | JJJMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |