<story><title>What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5168718/what-blocks-ruby-python-to-get-javascript-v8-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Put on hold as too broad by rene, davidism, vaultah, Sam, iCodez 2 hours ago

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Meta: It&amp;#x27;s interesting that 5 users thought that it would benefit the SO community to put this question on hold, while 100+ thought it was an interesting question.  In one way, SO does keep the noise down pretty well, but this doesn&amp;#x27;t feel to me like noise.  Does avoiding questions like these actually make SO a better place?   Is there a reworded version of this question that would actually elicit better responses?  Or is this just the joy of playing the enforcer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mirkules</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not a moderator, but I agree that the question is not really constructive in the scope of what stack overflow is supposed to do: answer questions to specific problems. The question itself is interesting as are the answers, and the whole discussion around it is great, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t belong on that site.&lt;p&gt;Why is python not as fast as JavaScript is a completely different question than &amp;quot;An internal error occurred during updating maven project&amp;quot;. The later seeks a solution to a problem while the former only encourages discussion but is impossible to solve (because it&amp;#x27;s not a solvable question).&lt;p&gt;So, I feel this question was appropriately tagged, or perhaps even not aggressively enough.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Blocks Ruby and Python from Getting to JavaScript V8 Speed?</title><url>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5168718/what-blocks-ruby-python-to-get-javascript-v8-speed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nkurz</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Put on hold as too broad by rene, davidism, vaultah, Sam, iCodez 2 hours ago

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Meta: It&amp;#x27;s interesting that 5 users thought that it would benefit the SO community to put this question on hold, while 100+ thought it was an interesting question.  In one way, SO does keep the noise down pretty well, but this doesn&amp;#x27;t feel to me like noise.  Does avoiding questions like these actually make SO a better place?   Is there a reworded version of this question that would actually elicit better responses?  Or is this just the joy of playing the enforcer?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Liru</author><text>I would say it&amp;#x27;s the latter. A majority of questions that I&amp;#x27;ve found on SO that helped me solve a problem or answer a question have been marked as non-constructive. I don&amp;#x27;t know why people would do that from a logical perspective, but I can see how having the ability to moderate discussion would make one overzealous with this sort of thing.</text></comment>