Timeline for What is/should be the right way for closing nonsensical questions?
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| Sep 27, 2015 at 13:12 | comment | added | user21820 | @JackM: Yes indeed exactly why I point out the existence of really unambiguously nonsensical questions. "Can one hand clap without moving" is either an honest question that deserves and honest answer, or what some people call trolling, but still arguably answerable. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 9:37 | comment | added | Jack M | @user21820 If the question was "Can one hand clap without moving?", would it be a better question? If the asker asks to prove something false, then the correct answer is to point out that it's false and explain why. | |
| Sep 27, 2015 at 9:03 | comment | added | user21820 | Your examples cannot even begin to compare with math.stackexchange.com/q/734583 and math.stackexchange.com/q/1433736 and math.stackexchange.com/q/790578. @JackM: These are the kind of questions that make perfectly no sense because the asker has a long history of attempting to pretend to know a lot but yet not putting any effort in understanding mathematics. Honestly, Lucian's analogy works well; these are like asking "How can we prove that one hand can clap without moving?" | |
| Sep 23, 2015 at 17:21 | vote | accept | Jack D'Aurizio | ||
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:33 | comment | added | Jack M | I wouldn't close any of the example questions you gave. They make perfect sense. The answer to the first one is "it diverges", and the answer to the third is "it depends on the angles", along with some examples to illustrate. | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 18:12 | comment | added | Lord_Farin | I think the volume of this stream of questions is sufficiently small that a custom close reason should be adequate. The unofficial SE AutoReviewComments extension supports snippets for that box as well, so you could use it to prevent having to write the same thing over and over, without adding yet another close option to the dialogue. | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Jack D'Aurizio | @GrigoryM: understandable, but assume that a question was: what is the numerical value of the improper Riemann integral $\int_{0}^{+\infty}e^{x}\,dx$? The question is perfectly clear, but still makes no sense, so unclear what you're asking is not a good match. | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 16:44 | answer | added | Milo Brandt | timeline score: 29 | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | Grigory M | I sometimes use «unclear what you're asking» [for such questions] | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 16:17 | comment | added | achille hui | @Lucian it sounds like this | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 15:59 | comment | added | Jack D'Aurizio | @Lucian: I love and I have always loved your irony, but I think this issue is quite substantial, I do not like MSE to be "flooded by garbage" (sorry in advance if I sound rude). | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 15:52 | comment | added | Lucian | Let's call the new close option Zen questions: What is the sound of one hand clapping?, and suggest that they be moved to Buddhism.SE :-$)$ | |
| Sep 13, 2015 at 15:39 | history | asked | Jack D'Aurizio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |