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Software Recommendations Category
On the original proposal for Power User, there was talk about allowing software recommendations on the site. Now that the site is up and running, I'd like to bring that request over to this Meta.
Could we have a "Software Recommendations" category, similar to other communities such as Outdoors' or Photography's Gear Recommendations?
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A request should have objective criteria that can be used to judge whether an answer is applicable.
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Good: What program can automatically footnote different number of footnotes per line?
The poster has noted the shortcomings of the program (Word) they are using and is requesting a specific feature they need. Answers can be objectively judged by this criteria; they either can or cannot do what the asker wants.
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Bad: What is the best browser?
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Should be able to go without saying, but a request should be within the scope of Power Users[1].
- Rule of thumb: If the type of software is on-topic in Q&A, it is on-topic to request.
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Posters should avoid radically changing or adding restrictions to their request. (Do not invalidate existing answers.)
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Posters should show what programs they've already tried, and what they found lacking in them.
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Whatever the scope is decided to be. ↩︎
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In the meantime that this is being discussed... the tag [software-recommendations] has collected seven questions.
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This(Software Category) is a good idea. In this question @Lundin is requesting for a new category where following topics are included :
- MS Office
- a subset of Google's G Suite that includes Docs, Sheets, etc
- Libre office and open office
- WPS office
- Zoho office, etc.
In my answer I said :
Is it wise to create new categories or sites for every 100 software?
In this question you are requesting to create a new category for Software. In this comment @Lundin said
The main reason is that if the main category contains some 95% office suite questions, then people will hesitate to ask other types of questions here.
That's why I will say Software Category is a great idea
Actually, there's some reason of requesting software category. Some users in Unix SE and Superuser just like to answer "OS" related question. And, I believe some users in this site want to answer "OS" related question also. But, currently most of people are asking software related question. That's why I think if there was another software category than it will be helpful for users to answers/reviewing question.
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