Linked Questions
10 questions linked to/from Statistics on identification questions and their askers
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Shall we ban identification questions?
The consensus for now seems to be to try it further with identification questions on the site and see how it will pan out in the future. We will shortly post more meta discussions about how to deal ...
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Check in on Identification questions
The rather clear direction of this discussion together with the current situation on the site led to the conclusion that identification questions are no longer appropriate on this site.
Back in May ...
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365 days out of beta: Where do we stand?
As you might have noticed, this site graduated about a year ago. This might be the right time to look back at the previous year, or even the whole site lifetime, and see how we are doing. This is a ...
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Discussion on identification questions
In Jeff Atwood's post Let's Play The Guessing Game, he pretty much condemned that identification questions just don't work too well in the Stack Exchange format. However, our sister site Science ...
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How to improve the problem with identification questions?
As many of you know, one way or the other this site has a problem with identification questions.
The large and rising influx of identification questions, which are often of rather low quality, ...
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Stats on people whose first question was an identify question
I'm curious to know what percentage of users whose first question was an ID question:
accepted answers to their questions
went on to become members of the site (if they were unregistered)
went on to ...
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What does the community want to do with identification questions?
There have been several topics and discussions about whether "identification questions" should be on-topic or off-topic. Now, anytime such a question is asked, pros and cons come with their ...
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Influx of recent low-to-no rep users asking really poor questions
First of all, where are they coming from? Did we advertise a sale or something? OK, but seriously, is it just that the site is growing, or was there some real attempt to get people here en masse?
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Are we too strict with "identify this movie by a single scene" questions?
A recent identify-this-movie question got downvoted fast and got the usual "more information" comment. The question asks to identify a movie by a single scene but gives no further information about ...
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What is the difference between close-voting detail-lacking ID questions and deleting inactive ones?
There has been quite some confusion recently as to what to do with old inactive ID-questions and what the difference is between close-voting for "not enough detail" and deleting for inactivity, ...
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