Timeline for Revisiting the Identify-this-game ban
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:33 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 27, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | user27134 | On topic: this thread which meets the requirements as agreed here was deleted, after an answer to the question had been provided. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 13:13 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @JeffAtwood to use your Harvard analogy, I'm not saying Harvard has to relax its standards. I'm saying that Harvard policy of not accepting applications from North Carolina because 99% of North Carolinians don't meet the standards needs to go. The fact that they have to reject more applicants to let that 1% in is not, in this case, reason enough to not consider them. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 11:54 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @JeffAtwood Of course it doesn't. But I've been increasingly unconvinced recently that a 'fence around the law' does anything to dissuade the people that are going to ask bad questions from doing so anyway. The sort of new users that won't grok this rule, don't do a much better job of grokking the more hard and fast ones anyway. So why are we punishing those who do 'get it' just because it makes it easier to yell at those who don't? | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 9:27 | comment | added | badp Mod | @JeffAtwood We are closing 100/100 of these questions right now anyway :) | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 8:50 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @badp so you will close 98/100 of these questions. That'll be fun. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 8:37 | comment | added | badp Mod | @JeffAtwood Honestly I'm having a hard time trying to come up with something less nuanced than "screenshot or GTFO." (Q&A is hard, let's go shopping!) | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 7:59 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | "As for the possibility of bad copycat questions, I just don't really believe it." I find your belief system fascinating. Because history teaches us that new users totally grok every subtle nuance of Stack Exchange right from the get-go, yes? | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 3:37 | history | edited | LessPop_MoreFizz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2012 at 3:35 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @MarkTrapp Fair enough. I'll edit my answer to reflect that. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 3:07 | comment | added | user3389 | Since we can't go back and do a search and replace on "identify this game" with "remember this game", I think it'd be better if we followed the rest of the network this time and called these questions game-identification. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 3:07 | comment | added | user3389 | At this point, I'm so exhausted from discussing it over the past few days, I'm all like whatever. Putting aside the ideological arguments, there's a practical reason why identify-this-game should remain dead which was evidenced throughout this discussion: it's got too much historical baggage, and if someone goes searching though meta for discussions about it, they're going to get all the old discussions which is going to be confusing, to put it mildly. | |
| Jul 22, 2012 at 0:02 | comment | added | Raven Dreamer Mod | "Old Style" ITGs might make more sense described as "Remember this game", if that helps to differentiate. | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 23:20 | history | answered | LessPop_MoreFizz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |