Timeline for Question that should not be closed is being closed
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| Apr 11, 2015 at 21:37 | comment | added | JohnP | @Jez - And on what SE site is "overly broad" not a close reason? | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Jez | And why would the information in response to this question be incorrect? It would merely be quite broad and include a "go to your doctor if the pain persists". | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:35 | comment | added | Tim | Okay, forget the litigation. I don't want to be responsible for giving out incorrect information, or supporting a site that is doing so. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 15:46 | comment | added | Jez | It's not that open-ended is it though, JohnP? Also the litigation aspect of things has been addressed by Robert in another meta post. In short: we're not worrying about it. And my answer would actually be more like "it's very unlikely to be really bad thing X, Y, or Z." That's the only way we're going to be able to answer the majority of health questions. It IS all about percentages, and you can rarely give absolute answers here. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 14:41 | comment | added | JohnP | @Jez - BTW, I did not downvote your meta question. I don't know who is going through and downvoting everything. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 14:39 | comment | added | JohnP | @Jez - Open ended list questions are off topic on every SE site. And at the time the pain occurred, you had no clue if it was life impacting or not. Knowing the litigious nature of society, I can't see an instance where we take the stance of diagnosing injury over the internet. Put yourself on the other side. Read the question as if someone else had posted it, and try to answer it. The only answer is "Well it could be this or this or that or maybe this other thing or it could be really bad thing X, Y or Z". | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 14:33 | comment | added | Jez | Your comment about its being "an open ended list question" will, I think, apply to many questions on this site. I don't see any problem with those sorts of questions, as the advice given in such answers could still be useful to many people. As I said, in my case (and in the vast majority), this kind of pain is not life-threatening or even serious, and does not warrant a visit to the doctor (until it's become chronic, anyway). That advice is, in fact, inappropriate. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 14:28 | history | answered | JohnP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |