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The first phase of our clean-up contest is to go through questions tagged and to close off-topic questions.

Background

Feedback on my idea/startup/website/name questions have been deemed off-topic for this site. New questions related to these topics are closed, but we still have some old questions lingering on the site that should be closed. We should close them to avoid confusion among our new users that may take these open questions as an indicaton that they are on-topic.

Most of these feedback questions have been tagged with either or .

Procedure

We need to go through these tags and vote to close the off-topic questions. To make it easier and minimize the need to revisit valid questions, this is how it will work:

I posted an answer to this thread that contains links to the questions tagged and . Pick a question from the list, and perform one of the following actions.

  • If the question has already been closed, delete the link from the list. (We will deal with these in a later phase.)
  • If it is a valid on-topic question, delete the link from the list.
  • If the question is off-topic, vote to close and leave the link in the list for others to find.

This first phase will last 1 week, starting today and ending on January 22. On January 23 we will move on to phase 2.

At the end of phase 1 all the links should have been deleted from the answer.

Bonus

If you happen to find a feedback on my idea/startup/website/name question that is not in our list, add a link to it under the Misc category. This is not necessary, but feel free to do it if you’d like.

Please don’t add random off-topic questions to this list. We will deal with those in later phases.

Requirements

You need a minimum of 500 rep to have the ability to vote to close questions. For those that have less than 500 rep you can still participate by leaving comments if you feel a question should be closed as off-topic.

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What about questions like "What product are you making?"? answers.onstartups.com/q/8743 – dnbrv Jan 16 '12 at 16:42
I would say that's a borderline question. The question itself is probably not constructive, but the first answer isn't too bad. It might be a candidate for migrating to meta. Let's see what others think. BTW, awesome job with this! I'm going to have to move phase 2 up the schedule :-) – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 16 '12 at 17:24
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IMHO, there are too many low-quality questions lately, such as umpteenth question about equity split. I think the FAQ & question closure guidelines need to be updated. – dnbrv Jan 16 '12 at 17:28
I agree with you about the low quality questions. I'm hoping that this contest will be the first step in improving that issue. I also agree with you on the equity split questions. Ideally, we should be closing them as duplicates, unless there is something really unique in a particular question. We discussed that a while back, and made some progress on it, but I don't think we're doing as good of a job as we should be. See this question and this answer and related comments for some background on that – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 16 '12 at 17:48
If you see a repetitive equity question please vote to close as a duplicate of this canonical Q&A. That helps the mods and others make a decision on whether to close it. – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 16 '12 at 17:51
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The thing about equity splits is that almost all situations are unique. However, they're also very similar and asking yet another question about it doesn't add to the community. The problem is that it's hard to say which previous question fits this situation best. – dnbrv Jan 16 '12 at 17:54
I understand. And that's exactly why we're in this predicament. The way I see it, the little details will be different (e.g. number of founders), but the guiding principles will usually always be the same (e.g. if everyone puts equal work, everyone gets equal share). That's where Jarie's canonical Q&A comes in handy. Take a look at it, it's very comprehensive. I think the subject of equity is within the scope of this site, so I wouldn't ban all equity questions, but I do think we need to reduce the number of them. But we're getting off-topic here; post a Q if you want to cont the discussion. – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 16 '12 at 19:39
I notice that the tag ask-onstartups had no tag info. I added a description but you ought to review it because I am not sure of being correct. answers.onstartups.com/tags/ask-onstartups/info I think it may be useful to discourage the use of this tag to newcomers. – pdjota Jan 17 '12 at 3:11
@pdjota Thank you for participating. It's much appreciated. The ask-onstartups tag is a meta tag that doesn't really mean anything. We will be removing that tag from the site at the end of the week, because we don't want the tag to be used anymore. – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 17 '12 at 4:34
@Zuly What's the view on questions that are basically answered on the first page of Google? answers.onstartups.com/q/34868/8784 for instance. – Matt Jan 18 '12 at 16:15
@Matt That's a good question that is still up for debate. I posed that question to the community here meta.answers.onstartups.com/questions/577/… and got some good responses, but I'm not sure if we came to a consensus. If you have an opinion/thoughts on that it would be great if you shared them on that thread. Personally, I'm not a big fan of those questions. Until we reach a consensus I say you act as you feel is appropriate - leave comments, vote accordingly, etc. Sorry, I wish I had a better answer for you. – Zuly Gonzalez♦ Jan 18 '12 at 20:19

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