user20: The main motivation here is this question asking where to find a list of currently airing anime, including date and time. It can be seen as a polling question (well, really, it is) and might come a cross as subjective, as there may be multiple valid answers, of which you might choose one by preference, but I also think it has (an) objectively correct answer(s), which fulfills the criteria set forth in the question completely.
What should or policy be here? Close as off-topic / not constructive (polling)? Keep them if they have one or more definite answers, from which one might pick depending on ones preferences?
As a tangent, on SO, there may also be multiple solutions to a specific programming problem, and you pick one that fits best depending on your demands and / or preferences.

user17: In the beginning, these type of bike-shed questions may be very attractive to many new users joining the site. They are common questions that many people will be searching for and will ultimately bring them to the site.
However, in the long-run, as we have seen on Stackoverflow, they tend to degenerate into the large-scale non-constructive polling questions - which are no longer allowed and ended in many of the existing ones in a historical lock.

So I think it's a double-edged sword. In the short-run they may be useful (or even crucial) to bringing in a critical mass of users. But in the long-run they will probably harm the site.
If we wanted to get the best of both, we could allow them for now. But if and when the site reaches maturity, we may need to consider locking them down - just as what has happened on Stackoverflow.

user126: I think we could do something like this - create "resource posts" that become centralized, single-instance posts of given kind of lists.
Allow them for now - another week maybe. Gather the answers, vote them according to quality. Then close, protect, archive and refer people to the archived question in years to come. The validity of the answers mutates very slowly. It will be okay for a few years, when we may conditionally allow one with updates.
Of course much more narrow and specific questions about resources - ones that are bound to yield 2-3 answers max, should be still welcome. Something so broad - maybe one or three per site is enough to cover all needs.

user15: Questions that ask for resources are dangerous, since you don't have a definite answer or a range of definite answers: you'll receive tons of answers that can be considered all equally "right".
The factor that makes you decide which one is the best is subjective. I might like a different resource rather than yours.
This is not my opinion, rather it's a long established SE policy, so there's not much we can really do.
In any case, I'm not totally against these questions, but I would advise to forbid them on the main site. Instead, let's move them to Meta and make a single resources question so we can use that for these things.

20: <p>The main motivation here is <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/156/20">this question</a> asking where to find a list of currently airing anime, including date and time. It can be seen as a polling question (well, really, it is) and might come a cross as subjective, as there may be multiple valid answers, of which you might choose one by preference, but I also think it has (an) objectively correct answer(s), which fulfills the criteria set forth in the question completely.</p>

<p>What should or policy be here? Close as off-topic / not constructive (polling)? Keep them if they have one or more definite answers, from which one might pick depending on ones preferences?</p>

<p>As a tangent, on SO, there may also be multiple solutions to a specific programming problem, and you pick one that fits best depending on your demands and / or preferences.</p>
 17: <p>In the beginning, these type of <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/31253/the-bike-shed-problem-and-so">bike-shed questions</a> may be very attractive to many new users joining the site. They are common questions that many people will be searching for and will ultimately bring them to the site.</p>

<p>However, in the long-run, as we have seen on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/">Stackoverflow</a>, they tend to degenerate into the large-scale non-constructive polling questions - which are no longer allowed and ended in many of the existing ones in a historical lock.</p>

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<p>So I think it's a double-edged sword. In the short-run they may be useful (or even crucial) to bringing in a critical mass of users. But in the long-run they will probably harm the site.</p>

<p>If we wanted to get the best of both, we could allow them for now. But if and when the site reaches maturity, we may need to consider locking them down - just as what has happened on Stackoverflow.</p>
 126: <p>I think we could do something like <a href="https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1482/what-are-your-favorite-english-language-tools">this</a> - create "resource posts" that become centralized, single-instance posts of given kind of lists.</p>

<p>Allow them for now - another week maybe. Gather the answers, vote them according to quality. Then close, protect, archive and refer people to the archived question in years to come. The validity of the answers mutates very slowly. It will be okay for a few years, when we may conditionally allow one with updates.</p>

<p>Of course much more narrow and specific questions about resources - ones that are bound to yield 2-3 answers max, should be still welcome. Something so broad - maybe one or three per site is enough to cover all needs.</p>
 15: <p>Questions that ask for resources are dangerous, since you don't have a definite answer or a range of definite answers: you'll receive tons of answers that can be considered all equally "right".</p>

<p>The factor that makes you decide which one is the best is subjective. I might like a different resource rather than yours.</p>

<p>This is not my opinion, rather it's a long established SE policy, so there's not much we can really do.</p>

<p>In any case, I'm not totally against these questions, but I would advise to forbid them on the main site. Instead, let's move them to Meta and make a single resources question so we can use that for these things.</p>
