I have a problem that I need solved, and it may require the
recommendation of a product. How do I ask these type of
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meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/161563/… –  CodeGnome Jan 9 '13
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How NOT TO ASK questions that may require a product
recommendation:    • "What the best product?"   • "List of
products that does "   • or this question's sister: "Is there
something that does "   • "What is an alternative to ?"  These
questions are discouraged because they lead to spam, "link rot".
They also do not provide good solutions (the main focus of any
site) as it is hard to filter the good from the bad when there
are 10+ answers all at the same rough vote count.  How TO ASK
questions that may require a product recommendation:   If you
did your research and you can describe what the problem is, then
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