user295: This is stemming from this question but it is part which has not been addressed in so far. So creating a thread for this specific part. Should a question should be put on hold thus blocking all other viewpoints and option when there is a answer from one or a limited number of schools. If one answer comes up I believe the playing field should be level so other schools / traditions can also represent their view.

user254: If one answer comes up I believe the playing field should be level so other schools / traditions can also represent their view.
I'm not sure I agree that's always the most important consideration.
I think the most important thing is that this is a Q+A site, whose topics (pages) consist of:

a question
one or more on-topic answers.

This site is (already) unusually permissive about how clear/unclear a question may be, even so occasionally a question crosses a line and is put on hold.
In this case the original question was "do you agree with me?" -- I sympathise with Lanka's finding that unclear and suggesting it should be replaced by a more-specific question.
Apart from its being unclear, "Do you agree with me" is phrased as a "polling question" (even if it wasn't meant that way), which is one of the few reasons for moderating a question.
If the question isn't sufficiently clear (or "good") to begin with, then I see no benefit in the question's accumulating lots of answers.
Anyway, I voted to reopen the question: and in case it matters, I did that not for the sake of "fairness between schools" (i.e. in order to give every "school" an opportunity to post an answer to an unclear question), but because you edited the question to make it sufficiently clear (and because three users voted to reopen it, and the OP agreed with the edited version of the question).
Reasons for asking for clear questions include:

To benefit the OP
To benefit future readers of the site
To minimize hostile disagreements between users (IMO arguments may occur if people haven't agreed on what they're talking about, and are therefore each arguing on different subjects)


295: <p>This is stemming from <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/19586/does-the-doctrine-of-no-soul-mean-there-is-nothing-permanent-to-continue">this question</a> but it is part which has not been <a href="https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2054/reopening-question-on-no-soul">addressed in so far</a>. So creating a thread for this specific part. Should a question should be put on hold thus blocking all other viewpoints and option when there is a answer from one or a limited number of schools. If one answer comes up I believe the playing field should be level so other schools / traditions can also represent their view.</p>
 254: <p><strong>If one answer comes up I believe the playing field should be level so other schools / traditions can also represent their view.</strong></p>

<p>I'm not sure I agree that's always the most important consideration.</p>

<p>I think the most important thing is that this is a Q+A site, whose topics (pages) consist of:</p>

<ul>
<li>a question</li>
<li>one or more on-topic answers.</li>
</ul>

<p>This site is (already) unusually permissive about how clear/unclear a question may be, even so occasionally a question crosses a line and is put on hold.
In this case the original question was "do you agree with me?" -- I sympathise with Lanka's finding that unclear and suggesting it should be replaced by a more-specific question.
Apart from its being unclear, "Do you agree with me" is phrased as a "polling question" (even if it wasn't meant that way), which is <a href="https://buddhism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1572/254">one of the few reasons for moderating a question</a>.</p>

<p>If the question isn't sufficiently clear (or "good") to begin with, then I see no benefit in the question's accumulating lots of answers.</p>

<p>Anyway, I voted to reopen the question: and in case it matters, I did that not for the sake of "fairness between schools" (i.e. in order to give every "school" an opportunity to post an answer to an unclear question), but because you edited the question to make it sufficiently clear (and because three users voted to reopen it, and the OP agreed with the edited version of the question).</p>

<p>Reasons for asking for clear questions include:</p>

<ul>
<li>To benefit the OP</li>
<li>To benefit future readers of the site</li>
<li>To minimize hostile disagreements between users (IMO arguments may occur if people haven't agreed on what they're talking about, and are therefore each arguing on different subjects)</li>
</ul>
