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Shouldnt this question be moved instead of closed ?

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I'm a little disappointed that How can Single Vision lenses slow myopia for adults too? was deemed off topic. Can anyone explain to me why?

It is indeed science speculation, it should be on rigorous sciences. The author linked multiple sources and made a good question, pointing out what makes him ask the question, with tons of information. It's well written. Why close instead of move?

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First, moving questions rewards people for asking in the wrong place. That's not something that should be encouraged.

Second, that's not a great question because it requires following links to get pertinent points. Information necessary for understanding a question must be in the question itself.

Third, the actual question doesn't make sense. Premises seem to be

  1. There are lenses advertised to control myopia in children.
  2. The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) has not approved these lenses.

The question then asks how these lenses can work for adults too.

The fact that the FDA hasn't approve the existing lenses even for children casts doubts on whether they work at all. In any case, all seem to agree that they don't work on adults, so asking how they can doesn't make sense. They don't.

The OP could possibly have asked by what mechanism these lenses seem to work, and why those don't apply to adults, but that's not what was asked.

It's not our job to fix messes. We close and move on. Doing anything else only encourages more messes.

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trichoplax‭ wrote about 1 year ago · edited about 1 year ago

I agree that the example question is of low quality, but the close reason suggested it was off topic, which is a different problem.

I understand your answer to mean that the example question is near to being on topic but low quality (so either the wrong close reason was used, or else it should not expect to be closed, just downvoted).

It might be worth having a separate Meta discussion about what is on topic. It is difficult to guess whether the voting on this answer reflects the fact that it covers question quality, or reflects the expressed view that the question could have been on topic if asked differently.

deleted user wrote about 1 year ago

My downvote is due to the person who answered missing the point completely, if low quality, downvote it, closing for being off-topic is wrong, could be closed due to "Low quality" but certainly not "off-topic"