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Following up from OK, so what IS allowed here?, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.

Following up from OK, so what IS allowed here?, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.

Following up from OK, so what IS allowed here?, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.

Following up from OK, so what IS allowed here?, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.

Following up from http://meta.musicfans.stackexchange.com/questions/5/ok-so-what-is-allowed-here, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.

Following up from OK, so what IS allowed here?, what are our opinions on fielding listening recommendation questions?

Here are some choices made by sister sites:

• Science Fiction & Fantasy: No recommendation questions, whether personalized ("I like X, what will I also like?" or categorical ("List of works that have Y in them").
• StackOverflow/SuperUser/ServerFault: a separate stack, http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/, was created because they're off-topic there.
• Arqade - requests for game recommendations off-topic, as per their Tour.
• Movies & TV - seems to be off topic based on (old) Meta posts, though the Tour doesn't state it explicitly.

In short, there seems to be a rather widespread consensus against them. However, that doesn't mean that we have to accept it here. Focused recommendation questions - not just "I like early Bowie, what else will I like", but the sort of questions that utilizes the expertise of the community, might be a better fit. Perhaps questions like "I enjoy the repetitive loops in Iggy Pop's The Passenger when jogging. What other songs have a similar song structure?".

Answers to this question should state if requests for recommendations should be entertained at all, and if so - what limitations and restrictions should be placed on those we accept.