Timeline for Are identify-this questions on topic?
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| Oct 7, 2011 at 0:54 | comment | added | Mark Mayo Mod | I think it comes down to purpose. If we were doing it for the 'game' factor - 'hey guys, for fun this week, name this park' type of question, then I think the decision was no. But I'm hard-pressed to come up with a definitive line for what is 'too localised', so as long as they're travel related and meet our other criteria, I'm (currently) ok with it. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 17:37 | comment | added | hippietrail | Just my point. A hundred is as arbitrary as a thousand. Some might think a hundred is enough to not be too localized and others might think a thousand isn't enough to be a good long tail \-: | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 13:04 | comment | added | Tom Au | @hippietrail: Then the followup issue is, how many of those 100 guests per season are likely to come to the site, either before, or after. The church, on the other hand, might have thousands of visitors, maybe a million over the course of a decade. In that case, we can count on some fraction of them coming to the site. | |
| Oct 6, 2011 at 7:03 | comment | added | hippietrail | We also have to balance the "too localized" with the "long tail". Remember that the long tail is one of the goals of Stack Exchange. I think this is one of the hardest distinctions to call on SE. A building that's not striking to you but an ugly box might turn out to be an important Bauhaus or Le Corbusier to somebody else. Does a question shift from "too localized" to "long tail" when it benefits two people? Ten? A hundred? What hotel won't have a hundred guests in a decent season? | |
| Oct 5, 2011 at 23:50 | history | answered | Tom Au | CC BY-SA 3.0 |