@mootinator chicken and egg problem. Notice that the last couple of messages discussed why the feeds were in there in the first place. If I did not put in the feeds this discussion would not exist. Thus I made you all talk. Boom. QED.
@mootinator There are only 23 meta questions. Quoting what Jeff Atwood says over a year ago doesn't really apply for a low traffic site with a low quantity of questions. Also the feed pushes the recent set of items in one go when it is initially added.
But the main point is I made you talk which is all that matters so it doesn't make sense to get yourself in a pickle about this.
Update: I've Found a definitive answer to one part of this question:
Is it likely that the producers simply overlooked this?
No. It was definitely intentionally removed from the original draft
Here's the ending of the movie from that draft:
INSERT – CLIPPING
A story with the headlin...
Format as in cutting up celluloid and the production of? Like how to get a dolly to move around a track and not have it visible in a single-tracking shot?
I guess it's not the identifying movies I'm wary of, it's the meandering way the community is sort of producing either genre or format specific sites which basically cover the same thing.
Proposal: Movies
I'm not saying this proposal should be shut down, I'm just wondering what the purpose of this proposal is. Perhaps I'm just missing something.
When looking at the exemplary questions:
How does the MPAA rate movies? --> regulations/laws
How does 3D work? --> technical questio...
Proposal: Movies
Would questions asking how a scene was shot be on-topic?
For example:
Q: How was the scene from Inception where the two guys were fighting in the hotel hallway with the shifting gravity shot?
A: It was shot by using a prop room that could be moved/rotated and the actor...
Norwegian (or was it Swedish?) looks so much like Dutch, that while reading the subtitles, it was almost like I understood what they were talking about
> I think we certainly have to allow those kind of questions. When we move out of beta, and the site will be open for everyone and not just the experts, it will be an important feature (ask the experts, if you can't find it out yourself). This is a Q & A site, and I don't see a reason why Identify This Movie Questions should be disallowed.
I hate the excuse of having certain questions around because they draw a crowd. We all know what a mess those bike-shed questions are on SO
Let me just say this: I am a honest-to-goodness Mac expert. See my bio for details. Yet I often find the quality of the questions on Ask Different to be lacking. I often think that the moderators on the site should take a stronger hand in closing silly questions, and I personally find the communi...
@random That's my point, what rules/guidelines/reasons would we need to make sure its very clear to anyone who cares (as in read FAQ/Meta) that which questions are allowed and which aren't
In the movie "The Social Network" - which class is Mark sitting in when he falls asleep? He then wakes up and answers the question.
I think it might be Computer Architecture.
If the question sounds like it's from bar trivia, then it's trivia
@phwd Analysis version: "Does Mark falling asleep in Chemistry 101 funnel into the narrative of his Asperger's and introvert outcast nature as someone who's a total jerk with no social chemistry?"
@phwd Analysis version: "Marvin's switch of guns between the bar scene and the killing of the informant is indicative of his loss of sense of self with understanding what the role of his killing has done. Is this switch the first sign where his character takes a path that he cannot undo?"
If trivia is bad, will making this site into something like "Critical Film Studies: Understanding Narrative Techniques and the Exploration of Character" shoo away people who just want to sit down and be the best pub trivia expert? Is that a good thing or bad?
Way back watching Dead Poet's Society the teacher explained the authority and rule of hand represented in a scene when one of the kid's father woke up out of bed and put on his slippers. That was deep and really furthered the whole appreciation of that movie among other techniques pointed out.
Seems okay if you ignore the quote from the movie explaining why Dr Crowe is like that, thus taking away the question
Five years should be the statute of the need for spoilers. If you haven't seen the film by then, you're not really going to get it out of your Netflix queue anytime soon
I'm trying to figure out the name of this fantasy novel series I read back somewhere between 2000-2002. All I can remember is that it was definitely a series. It had two girls and although I'm not sure, I think they were sisters. One was a redhead and the other a blonde, and I'm pretty sure the r...
This is very vague but the book had some sort of station in a surreal universe that I think spaceships had to pass through in "hyperspace" between stars. I think it might have been part of a series but I can't remember anything other than the surreal nature of the universe and the fact that there...
Not getting answers is not a reason to close identification questions. But lacking details is.
We prefer not to do the close-and-reopen dance 1) because we don't have much traffic so it's not a big deal to come back later and 2) because it's common that people ask questions in comments and these prod the asker's memory
So we have two things (at least to me), 1) traffic 2) good questions
In your answer you keep talking about traffic
> We answer people who can't be bothered to read the first Google hit, why not answer people who have the normal human trait of an imperfect memory and can't get an answer to their question without human assistance?
Doesn't seem like a valid reason "If joey has it why can't I too?"
@phwd Identification questions have a unique answer and are based on an actual problem faced by the asker. Which makes them ideal examples, according to the FAQ, blogs, etc.
So if you want to forbid them, the onus is on you to find a good argument against them
The only reasonable argument I've seen is that they bore the experts and drive them away.
This argument would be a good one if it was true. In fact, it is false: identification questions attract experts.
@phwd Yes, and for identification questions this is exactly right: we avoid the chewing of the rag that can sometimes happen, so the answer is right there and visible
@phwd No. There are plenty of opportunities for extended discussions, such as someone posting a review, or just asking “what did you think of this book?”
On rasfw there's a bit of a competition as to who answers the most yasids, as well as a collective competition to answer them as fast as possible
which on SE translates very well to reputation for the answerers BTW
Update: I've Found a definitive answer to one part of this question:
Is it likely that the producers simply overlooked this?
No. It was definitely intentionally removed from the original draft
Here's the ending of the movie from that draft:
INSERT – CLIPPING
A story with the headlin...
Proposal: Movies
Would questions asking how a scene was shot be on-topic?
For example:
Q: How was the scene from Inception where the two guys were fighting in the hotel hallway with the shifting gravity shot?
A: It was shot by using a prop room that could be moved/rotated and the actor...
It's a 5" barreled Smith & Wesson Model 460V
The full list can be found at http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Red_(2010)
That's a vague title, but I couldn't think of another way to make it not a spoiler. What I really want to know is
The Screening Room
The Screening Room