Flamebait topics - how do we want to deal with them?

Question

In my experience, most testing forums have a few contentious topics that attract much heat, and very little light. The "certification" fracas is one example - I'm sure people can come up with others.

Given that this is a Q&A site, rather than a debating platform - are there topics that we would want to close on sight? Or should these always be dealt with on a case by case basis?

Answer 1

Generally such things get closed as "closed as subjective and argumentative". Example. In the beginning, we'll probably close too many too fast, such as the books one - I think that should be a community wiki question as it is on many other sites.