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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

Just an observation; Walt was recently lauded for hitting the 100K mark here in terms of rep. Take note that 67% of his posts are in identify-this-movie and another I'm-not-really-sure-how-many are ...
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Shall we ban identification questions?

No, we should not ban identification questions as off-topic! They do fit the Q&A format and should be allowed here. And the situation still can work well if we go by the current rule of closing ...
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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

I think one option we could do is create a meta post detailing the avenues/resources that our experts would follow in order to identify movies and tv shows. This way we can at least point users to a ...
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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

Identification questions is what introduced me to this site. It is also why I got addicted to it. It is really a shame to see it go away. Especially when there is no other site that provides such ...
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How can I find the title of a movie from just a description or image?

First of all, there is a site within the Stack Exchange network which still accepts such questions: Science Fiction & Fantasy requires the work to contain distinct science fiction, fantasy, or ...
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Check in on Identification questions

My first question was an identify question. I know I'm not the most valuable member of the community, but I believe I've given valuable contributions to the community over time. I also know that any ...
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Why are movie and TV show identification questions so underrated?

There's a few reasons why these identify-this-movie and identify-this-tv-show tend to get frequently downvoted: Poor formatting/grammar I edited the question you linked to. Before I edited it, it ...
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Shall we ban identification questions?

Yes, we shall ban identification questions as off-topic! They are just not a good fit for this site and I see them as the bane of this site for all the reasons mentioned in the question, but ...
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Can I describe a very sexual scene which is needed to identify a movie?

As to the point of identification questions specifically, I'm afraid the community has decided to no longer support them on this site, so your question likely won't be appropriate to begin with. ...
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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

Not sure if this should be an "answer" or a comment, but I think that the tags should still show up in the selectable list when someone is asking a question with a warning of not to use the tags. If ...
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Shall we ban identification questions?

I'm not here to there you what you should and shouldn't do, but rather share with you the perspectives of another SE site that dealt with a similar string of questions for over three years. What ...
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About banning Id questions

I didn't see that since I don't check Meta Sorry if this is harsh to hear but that's your fault. the Meta Question "Check in on Identification questions" was posted Nov 27 '17 at 16:57 the first ...
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Why are identification questions not allowed here, but allowed on the Science Fiction & Fantasy site?

Science Fiction & Fantasy mod here, and also highish-rep Movies & TV user and meta contributor. A bit of both. The "decision makers" (active community members including moderators ...
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Policy for picture-only indentify-this-movie questions

The examples you have provided are 2-3 years old. The site policy for Identification questions has been changed since then. With a huge numbers of bad questions accumulating on the main site, a ...
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How to improve the problem with identification questions?

As someone who's seen a lot of ID questions, I have no doubt there are plenty of Good ID questions (though ID detractors might imagine Good ID in quotes). But it's almost equally evident that Bad ID (...
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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

It sounds like there is enough support for a Movie/TV Trivia SE. Seems odd to create what will essentially be a competing group, but other areas of SE have branched apart, so it's not unprecedented.
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Do we allow character identification questions?

NO Identification questions have an understandably bad reputation here on Movies and TV for a good reason... It's incredibly hard to write a good one and incredibly easy to write a bad one. At best ...
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Check in on Identification questions

I have to say that who want ID question to stay didn't get the chance to say anything. And (like me) probably wasn't aware of this discussion. As for why it should stay, is simply because it's simply ...
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We are discontinuing support for identification questions

Very dissatisfied with the disappearance of these questions, which I loved and kept coming back for. Would it have taken a coding wizard to send an actual email to everyone who ever interacted with ...
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ID questions about sci-fi or fantasy films

Flags are a bad fit for this. They're expedient if you only expect to migrate maybe a half-dozen questions, ever, but if you expect to migrate "as many as possible" of the 4K+ ID questions ...
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Improve and extend the automatic tag-popup for identification questions

While we're at the task of cleaning up the identify tags (as much as possible) it might be worth also trying to improve identify-this-actor. It's not nearly the crisis that identify-this-movie is, but ...
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Check in on Identification questions

We should not ban identification questions as off-topic! They do fit the Q&A format and should be allowed here. And the situation still can work well if we go by the current rule of closing all ...
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Why was my answer deleted?

There's a general policy to discourage answering off-topic questions. The logic is that if people can get an answer to an off-topic question, then they can ask anything they feel like and get an ...
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How to improve the problem with identification questions?

This may be largely a rhetorical point, but will you ever resolve to start banning these questions completely? You have been fighting with this problem for years, but as identify-this questions are ...
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
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Should we encourage swifter deletion of bad ID questions?

If the vote does go against banning them, I think this plan has merit, at least to help address the problems with the site image that Napoleon Wilson mentioned on the post about banning id questions. ...
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Check in on Identification questions

I think the difference in return rates of 17% vs 25% isn't particularly compelling but I completely agree with the argument that it takes a lot of the collective moderation of the site dealing with ...
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Why was my answer deleted?

was my answer deleted because it was short and included a link as suggested in the help centre? or because it was in response to an identify question? I'd say both of those reasons in combination. ...
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Should there be an "Identify-this-documentary" tag?

No, there shouldn't. Documentary is less of a medium than rather a genre or style. Documentaries can very well be either movies or TV-shows, which are the media that we separate ID questions into. So ...
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