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Should minimal research be required before posting?

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According to the help center, to ask a "great question," you should "Do some research...In addition to just making sure your question hasn't been asked already here on Codidact, take a few moments to search beyond the site. If you put your question title into a search engine, can you find the answer to your question in the first three results?"

Currently this is left as a guideline, a recommendation. Should this be adopted as site policy, that if a simple Google search for your question yields answers, don't ask it here, or should it be left as a guideline?

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AA ‭ wrote over 4 years ago · edited over 4 years ago

Are you asking if it should be a policy or if it should be an enforceable policy (via closure/deletion)? Encouraging people to look elsehwere first is different from forcing them to. I'm not sure what you are proposing

manassehkatz‭ wrote over 4 years ago

The complication is that the "simple search result" may provide an answer, but not a complete, comprehensive, authoritative answer, particularly if it comes to a complex Halachic question.

DonielF‭ wrote over 4 years ago

@AA Either or both.