Timeline for When does a 'where on earth' question become so vague it's off-topic?
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 12:46 | comment | added | Chris H | Addressing the edit: I agree that the recent questions identifying images from an archive are certainly higher quality questions than those which have mostly been discussed here. But while “identifying historical photos for possible use in WP” may be a valuable service, it isn’t at all travel related. | |
| Jul 11, 2020 at 14:10 | history | edited | WillekeMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 7:16 | comment | added | Chris H | @GregHewgill I believe you're right on that. But there's at least one example in here where an incomprehensibly awful question would have been purged but now never will be, because it was reopened after somebody found the answer. That's why I argued against such a policy of reopening for people to post answers. The fact somebody found the answer doesn't change that it's very possibly the worst actual question (i.e. not spam or a misguided attempt to reply to another question/answer) I've ever seen on the site, but the reopening means that now it's here to stay. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 0:26 | comment | added | user105640 | @GregHewgill Understood, but we might get rid of those that really have no credible answer. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 0:05 | comment | added | Greg Hewgill | @Arthur'sPass: As far as I know, the system will never automatically purge questions that have an accepted answer, even if they are monumentally terrible questions. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 20:51 | comment | added | user105640 | A bad question is a bad question, regardless of whether it has an answer. If we reopen bad questions it will encourage more of the same. Leave a bad question closed and let the system purge it as normal. It's always possible to add a comment. | |
| Jun 15, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | mdewey | The question about gasometers to which Daniil links is different in my view because they are not unique but still on topic. Travellers must often see some apparently common object which they cannot identify and have never seen in their own country. The where is this ones are, it seems to me, a plague. | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 12:42 | comment | added | Willeke Mod | @ChrisH, Maybe you can post an 'lets close all' answer. | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 12:33 | comment | added | Chris H | I agree with most of what you’ve said, but I’m not sure about reopening bad ones if somebody identifies it. Something like this, for example, is a mind-blowingly terrible question that we should be getting rid of. The fact somebody somehow identified it doesn’t change that, but I’d be concerned that a policy of reopening in that situation would work as encouragement for posting similar future questions. A question that should be closed is a question that should be closed. | |
| Jun 13, 2020 at 10:58 | history | edited | WillekeMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13, 2020 at 10:25 | history | answered | WillekeMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |