<p>I just want to react to a recent question that was asked about the R <code>rank</code> function:
<a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/3321/930">Rank in R - descending order</a></p>

<p>To my opinion, this is clearly <em>unrelated to statistical analysis</em> and is purely a technical trick, specific of one particular language. From what I seem to remember, such questions were likely to be closed or downvoted one or two months ago. I know this has been discussed in the mean time, but there it seems a little googling would have been fine.</p>

<p>So, my question is: Are we going to open the door to such questions, at the risk of "obliterating" real and interesting questions about statistical modeling?</p>

<p>P.S. I didn't donwvote it but I don't understand why it has been upvoted.</p>
