Timeline for Check in on Identification questions
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 4:35 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | Thank you @Erik ... much appreciated. | |
| Jan 22, 2018 at 22:26 | comment | added | Erik | @iandotkelly I will say that even though we're on opposite sides of this debate I really appreciated your input on this issue. I like how you seem to have a willingness to see both sides of the issue. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 14:34 | comment | added | MmmHmm | @iandotkelly well then, I suppose we shall see. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 14:22 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | @Mr.Kennedy... actually evidence from other sites that have gone in this direction is that it does cut them down eventually, to the order of 1 per day. Its also the case that it is for us to decide the scope of what we want to ask and answer on this site - and the data shows that (with notable exceptions) ID users don't stick with the site. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 14:17 | comment | added | MmmHmm | @iandotkelly banning them is bad policy decision, it won't stop them from being asked and it will ensure that new users who ask them are completely turned off to SE. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | @Mr.Kennedy .... that solves the solution for me, or for any significantly experienced user - that doesn't address the poor experience for new users. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 12:14 | comment | added | MmmHmm | I generally find that when you think there are only two options to resolve an issue, then you are simply looking at it incorrectly. Are you unable to simply ignore ID-This questions? | |
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 10:39 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @iandotkelly Yes, and that's exactly what we got here. An open question to gather input about how the community feels about these questions. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 19:38 | history | edited | iandotkellyMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 19:10 | history | edited | iandotkellyMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 17:45 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @Thunderforge You can certainly try to propose one on Area51. But I think this has been tried before and is likely to fail for pretty much the reasons those questions failed on this site. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 17:38 | comment | added | Thunderforge | I don't suppose that there would be the possibility of creating a MovieIdentification.SE for those who enjoy them? Similar to how SoftwareRecommendations.SE was created after StackOverflow et al. decided that they didn't want them any more? | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | Personally I don't answer them or particularly enjoy them - but they are enjoyed by some. I'd rather they didn't exist - but I don't want to pretend that banning them won't have any negative consequences. I think in conclusion we need a new "What should we do with ID questions" with 2 or 3 answers to vote on. My preference would not to include the status-quo, but that is also worth discussing. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 16:08 | comment | added | steelersquirrel | I admittedly have defended ID questions for the majority of my time here because I have always liked answering them and they brought me to this site. It was only until recently that I really saw how negatively they affected the site. I can now see that they just need to be banned. as @DForck42 said, this site is for plots, themes, characters, etc. The majority of ID posters simply post a bad ID and just leave the site never to return. I understand that it increases traffic, but unwanted traffic. I would rather have quality over quantity. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | The problem with option 2 is that it brought us exactly here. We tried that before and it simply led to the site getting drowned out by ID questions and the community trying to contain their contageous nature. Ignoring these questions doesn't work when they basically become the brand of what this site's purpose is to the outside world, distorting the image if the site and basically leading to just more ID. It's not about the high-rep users ignoring some questions they don't like, it's about new users ignoring questions that just aren't representative of the content we want to see here. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 15:39 | comment | added | DForck42 | I am personally for banning them outright. To me, at the end of the day, we are not a movie-id site, we are a site that people go to in order to get answers about plots, themes, characters, and other in-depth questions. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 15:36 | history | edited | Napoleon WilsonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 15:26 | history | answered | iandotkellyMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |