[antman]

That's why this has to happen on Kaggle. If they asked it on SE there was the danger of one of their mods closing the question. There is the claim that people will have a worse experience if generic like comparative questions are allowed. A machine learning contest attempting to verify this claim would be more important. Or they could simply ask this on stackoverflow? Maybe there will be enough answers before somebody sends it to oblivion (meta stackoverflow site) or closes the question.