Timeline for Check in on Identification questions
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| Jun 19, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | tsuma534 | "Identification questions have only ever been tolerated on here as a service provided in addition to the site's primary purpose." This got me thinking. Where can I learn what is this site's primary purpose? I haven't located any "about" section or anything like that. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | Mark Viola | In the early 1970's, while I was a child, I recall my seeing a horror movie. My memories of the film were vague as an adult, but I remembered the salient element of the chilling ending. For years as an adult, I was curious about this movie, its title, its director, its cast, etc. Three years ago, I posted a question (which has since been deleted by this site's administrators) that asked about this movie. I received a fantastic answer and felt thrilled to have finally uncovered the mystery that plagued me all of those years. Why would you want to take away that specific power of this site? | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod |
@ToddWilcox They are quite consequently tagged identify-this-* here, a special case among each 1000 notwithstanding.
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| Dec 21, 2017 at 16:35 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Is it even possible to automatically close all old ID questions? I guess if they are tagged correctly. I think Music.SE never had an ID tag so it hasn’t been feasible to close all the old OT questions from the beta days. Some manual history locking has been done. My main point was that there will be some upset “new users”, but that’s gonna happen either way. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 11:00 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @ToddWilcox Any possible declaration of off-toppicness would necessarily have to be accompanied by some kind of cleanup of older posts, of course. And even if not all old questions will get deleted, they would all be closed, of course they can't stay open. I agree that this would be highly inconsistent. "Practicality" isn't a concern here, especially since SE is willing to help with automated procedures. So the problem of inconsistency likely won't arise that much. There might still be some closed questions left on the site, but they would likely be historically locked anyway. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 10:01 | comment | added | Luciano | @ToddWilcox I suppose we'll have to close all older questions without answers or no accepted answers, that should be fairly easy. These meta questions could be redirected to an explanation why we don't accept ID questions anymore. | |
| Dec 21, 2017 at 8:30 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | Based on the meta responses to closures of ID questions on Music Practice & Theory, I would expect that many possible new users will feel the site is less tolerant and consistent if ID questions become off-topic. One of the big problems that will arise is that it’s not practical to go back and close all the previous ID questions, which means there will be meta posts about “why is my question closed when this older ID question is still open?” Aside from that, I agree with this answer. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @Luciano As of now nothing has changed yet. So do as before, close the bad ones, answer the good ones. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | Luciano | So what to do with new ID questions in the meantime? Flag and close? Downvote? Upvote and answer? | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 15:23 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @Skooba There is no contrete plan for anything yet. For now we're gathering the community's feedback on this open discussion and will see how it goes. We will concern ourselves with this problem in a more concrete manner soon, though. | |
| Dec 5, 2017 at 14:09 | comment | added | Skooba - Stands Against AI | So what is and when will the next step be taken? Seems like there is a pretty good consensus here. | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 17:52 | comment | added | jscs | Closely related: SE blog post "The Trouble with Popularity" | |
| Dec 2, 2017 at 5:45 | history | edited | A JMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2017 at 11:17 | comment | added | user1306322 | I see all the same arguments which were brought up on Anime&Manga when voting to ban ID requests. I suppose I should congratulate you guys for finally agreeing on this collectively :p | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 13:13 | comment | added | Skooba - Stands Against AI | I think your mentioning of pearls (intentional or not) hits the nail on the head. It instantly reminded me of the old blog post. ID questions are sandiest (easy to ask and low quality) of all and the most difficult to produce a peal (answers will be short, maybe a few sentences at most). | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 7:33 | comment | added | Paulie_D | Wow! Just wow...Nailed it...I don't even have to post my answer which would have said exactly the same things just not so eloquently. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 22:20 | history | answered | Napoleon WilsonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |