What is meta? ×  I recently had a question closed due to a bad
fit for Q&A  How does one request book recommendations for
formal treatments of subject matter?  share|improve this
question  migrated from stackoverflow.com Nov 26 '11 at 3:50
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programmers.  Thanks Peter. Unfortunately, I don't have an
account. –  noloader Nov 26 '11 at 3:49 Thanks random. From the
link, I can't tell if asking for a recommendation is on-topic or
off-topic. Next (for me) is the small leap to citations for
answers. If book recommendations are subjective and not worthy,
then neither are citations using the same book. It does not make
sense to me. –  jww Nov 26 '11 at 4:40 I'm giving you a sympathy
upvote. Surely you got so many downvotes because people were
saying "Don't ask about shopping recommendations, it's
offtopic". Downvotes on meta mean disagreement. To downvoters I
remind you this sort of question is ontopic in chat –  The
Unhandled Exception Nov 26 '11 at 13: