Timeline for Policy Review: Image-only id requests
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:54 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 10:10 | vote | accept | Toshinou Kyouko | ||
| Jan 28, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | Toshinou Kyouko Mod | @Torisuda That's a good suggestion :) | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 4:56 | comment | added | Torisuda | I think the most practical course is to outlaw all photo-based identification requests which fall outside the bounds of merchandise and cosplay, and decide the edge cases when they show up, instead of trying to cast our minds ahead to come up with them and predetermine our policy to deal with them. I suppose itasha are either merchandise or cosplay, depending on how you look at it, so they can be allowed in general. | |
| Jan 27, 2016 at 4:50 | comment | added | Torisuda | The problem with our current policy is that it's highly complex, full of grey areas, and forces people to waste time checking sources before they can even know if the question is on-topic. If we start making exemptions and adding conditions, we're going to end up with another highly complex policy full of grey areas and loopholes. If accepting cosplay and itasha is going to drive us into another maze of loopholes, I think we should not accept them. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 22:07 | comment | added | кяαzєя Mod | It's also worth mentioning that we should still allow these questions to be asked in our main chat. Given that there is a 20 rep limit to do so, users that have gotten this far have showed that they've at least made some effort to familiarize themselves with our site and should be provided this courtesy. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 22:03 | comment | added | кяαzєя Mod | The problem I find is that there is a disconnect between something you took yourself vs something someone else took. The disconnect where to draw the line. If you say a photo that someone else took and posted on their blog, it would be considered "another picture on the internet." Sometimes the photographer makes a mention, but usually they don't (i.e. because they don't know themselves). It might be worth discussing whether or not we should have them provide a link or mention a source it's not their own. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 21:58 | comment | added | Toshinou Kyouko Mod | @ʞɹɐzǝɹ I would think that would fall under the same rules - if you take the photos yourself / it is part of a larger anime event, it could be okay - but if it's just another picture on the internet, I'd be inclined to have it under the removals | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | кяαzєя Mod | Do itasha id-reqs count as cosplay? | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 8:38 | comment | added | nhahtdh | In the end, it has come to this. I don't have any objection, though, since allowing them requires consistent effort from the community to do the up-keeping work. +1 | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 8:35 | history | edited | nhahtdh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2016 at 8:24 | comment | added | Torisuda | To @Memor-X's point, I think we should tag cosplay/merchandise image questions as just "cosplay" or just "merchandise". Then we have a clear policy: there are no identification requests on images. At all. There are just merchandise questions and cosplay questions. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 7:02 | comment | added | Toshinou Kyouko Mod | @senshin I think the main problem with them is there's no clear quality control, whereas at least we have the 3 points for other questions. Cosplay is indeed a less justifiable case, but we can assess this if it gets bad. I believe there won't be too many of them | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 5:25 | comment | added | senshin | These questions are certainly abominable, but they are not substantially worse than identification requests in general. Soapbox aside, I am sympathetic to people who come here wanting merchandise identified: having a concrete physical entity you own identified is actually valuable in a way that most id-reqs aren't. "What is this thing I own" is a question worth answering, whereas "what is this thing I remember" is rather less so. Cosplay falls into the latter class, imo (unless you own the costume or something, I guess), but I don't feel terribly strongly either way. | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 3:45 | comment | added | Memor-X | if image id requests get limited to cosplay and merch, with those would we then use the cosplay/merch tags along with the id request tag? or would we want to have separate tags such as id-cospay and id-merch | |
| Jan 26, 2016 at 3:10 | comment | added | Torisuda | Recently there also seem to be a lot of "id all the anime in this video of random clips" questions, which I hate even more than the image ones because they are basically equivalent to "identify ten random images in one question". | |
| Jan 25, 2016 at 21:20 | history | answered | Toshinou KyoukoMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |