Too localized!

Conversation started May 11, 2012 at 21:55.

bwarner

May 11, 2012 21:55

Trying again, can someone explain why this question was closed? @badp or @oak? gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/65829/…

badp

@bwarner (why are you asking us who didn't VTC the question? :P)

Fluttershy

@FAE Always, always so mean to me.

bwarner

Because @Raven isn't here?

FAE

@Fluttershy I aaaaaaam and I love it and so do you

badp

I imagine "too localized" here means "this no longer applies to the present so nobody cares"

you can debate on whether or not that's a valid reason, but that's most likely why

bwarner

May 11, 2012 21:56

But is "nobody cares" a close reason or a downvote reason?

Fluttershy

@FAE <3

James

@RonanForman Yeah sorry man, Until either Peter or Marco show up and explain what they did I do not have the time to invest into just starting a minecraft server with a map on it like this.

bwarner

I was under the impression it was the latter. Though "Too Localized" has always been a bit of a mystery to me.

James

ctw will start up, but not just a simple minecraft server and I do not want to overwrite anything in the ctw server.

Ronan Forman

@James It's late here anyway, we'll get it sorted for some other day.

James

May 11, 2012 21:58

@RonanForman k, Sorry.

AH HA!

Ronan Forman

@James 'tis not your fault.

James

Chat works as long as I am only in one effing room!

@RonanForman There was supposed to be a start up script called minecraft-arena all I can find is ctw and go2.. go2 requires su access, ctw is well, for ctw :)

badp

@bwarner "nobody cares" is a close reason as in "Why is that Honda parked outside my house"

Lazers

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bwarner

@badp That sounds like "Off topic". A valid example needs to be on topic and still "Nobody cares". And that seems awfully subjective to be a close reason.

I mean, there are all sorts of questions on this site that I don't care about. And many that I suspect that nobody other than the asker cares about. But it seems awfully tenuous to use that as a close reason. I seem to recall that being a rejected argument against ITG.

Fluttershy

May 11, 2012 22:10

@Blem That was fun! =D

Blem

@Fluttershy yea, say if you want to play again another day, then i will make sure i get some wood from the start

Fluttershy

@Blem Will do.

Wipqozn

What question are you talking about @badp / @bwarner?

GnomeSlice

@badp That's a stupid close reason because clearly somebody cares

Fluttershy

20 mins ago, by bwarner

Trying again, can someone explain why this question was closed? @badp or @oak? http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/65829/what-was-the-original-ultima-online-price-and-monthly-fee

FAE

May 11, 2012 22:16

Hello Bridge.

Blem

@FAE was the movie good? im thinking of going and seeing it tomorrow afternoon

FAE

@Blem I very very much enjoyed it

bwarner

I'd be much happier seeing it open with a score of -10, but that's just me.

Wipqozn

@Fluttershy thanks

FAE

I am buzzy

Wipqozn

May 11, 2012 22:18

@Fluttershy What a terrible and useless question.

FAE

This is a pleasing feeling

Amstel blond is not bad

But is it not as good as the Grolsch 11.6

OrigamiRobot

@GnomeSlice Yes one person cares. That's called Too Localized.

badp

@bwarner I don't think that makes sense

user2334

May 11, 2012 22:35

That question is not too localized. Off-topic perhaps, general reference maybe, but not too localized. It'd be applicable to anyone searching for the price of Ultima Online at launch

user2334

Too localized is "What was the sale price of UO in 1996 at my local GameStop?"

badp

the question is, is tehre any?

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp The price of a game in 1997 is not relevant to a lot of people. Too localized.

James

@balpha Seems my chat issues only occur here when I am in multiple rooms.

OrigamiRobot

Also, we are not a price catalog. (unrelated to localization)

StrixVaria

May 11, 2012 22:37

@OrigamiRobot You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what too localized means. I'm not saying this is a good question. But that is not the reason it's a bad question.

@LessPopMoreFizz can put it way more eloquently than I can, though.

user2334

@OrigamiRobot Doesn't have to be relevant to a lot of people. The point of the too localized reason is to shut down questions for which nobody except the poster would ever be able to answer or give a damn about. "Why is there a guy outside my house?" "What was my favorite thing about UO?" "What was the name of that game I vaguely recall as being fun?"

OrigamiRobot

> This question is unlikely to ever help any future visitors

user2334

SE is supposed to be the place where esoteric questions have a home

user2334

A: Too localized: by population size instead of geographical area

Stop abusing "Too Localized." That is meant to close questions that are so specific to a particular place and time that they can only possible benefit the poster, or questions which would be obsolete in a matter of seconds. Just because there is a location in a question doesn't mean it's too loca...

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp Then change the description.

user2334

May 11, 2012 22:39

Yes, because that's a thing I can do.

Wipqozn

@MarkTrapp I thought you could do anything?

OrigamiRobot

I am directing it at the point you are making not you persoanlly

Wipqozn

Like, I thought you were a warlock or something.

user2334

I am a level 97 ovinomancer

FAE

@MarkTrapp sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

user2334

May 11, 2012 22:40

Open your eyes, sheeple! The ovinomancer is here!

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I know the difference between time localized and other types of localization

My point is, the current description applies to that question IMO. If that is not a proper description, why am I at fault?

StrixVaria

The point of the site is not to be nazis about what questions we allow.

OrigamiRobot

By me I mean people in favor of closing it

Ronan Forman

You will be led to judgement like lambs to the slaughter--a simile whose existence, I might add, will not do your species any favors.

user2334

Not about assigning blame but about doing the correct thing given available knowledge being provided

OrigamiRobot

May 11, 2012 22:42

I am not talking about blame

I am saying people are acting according to the information given in the description of the close reason

Wipqozn

I don't see how this question has any value at all. We wouldn't allow a question asking the price of a game today, so why should we allow a question asking the price of a game in the past? If anything that just means that any price questions can't be closed, and should be converted to "what was the price of the game at time X?", and then a new question is asked.

user2334

@OrigamiRobot All people are saying, or at least all I'm saying, is that specific interpretation doesn't accurately capture the intent of the close reason.

user2334

@Wipqozn So close it for something else. Off-topic or something.

OrigamiRobot

@MarkTrapp I understand that, but that means the close reason needs a better description.

StrixVaria

Not constructive.

@OrigamiRobot Sounds like a good feature request for meta.

OrigamiRobot

May 11, 2012 22:44

@StrixVaria But it isn't any of the reasons listed in Not Constructive

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot It is not constructive just based on the words "not constructive".

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria I know that, but people will just complain about it as a close reason too.

user2334

Isn't a good fit for the SE engine

Wipqozn

I think we need a meta asking what Too Localized means. I personally have always been confused about it.

Mostly since everyone seems to have a differing opinion on it.

OrigamiRobot

Instead of just constantly explaining that the description doesn't fit the reason, just change the description

People can only act on the information that is given to them

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