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12:00 AM
Great, the ID crowd has finally captured the "Hot Network Questions" list.
 
12:13 AM
@user9667 ... I changed the tag to your question because "the-prisoner" tag refers to a TV series. The better tag is "identify-this-movie" which I have placed in there for you. I hope your question is answered :D
 
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Q: Identify an old labor prison movie

user9667Older movie was in color, probably technicolor, had a bit of a Cool Hand Luke feel to it, but I didn't see enough of the movie. Starting point I saw was a cowboy guy robbing a bank alone, but walks into the vault and the teller slamming the door on him. He may have done it on purpose, as he lig...

 
12:57 AM
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Q: Castle in a bay with ghost little girl

sueWhat is the older movie where there is a castle in a bay that you cannot get to when the tide comes in? There is a little girl ghost that drowned in a wagon as they tried to leave the castle too late?

 
 
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2:00 AM
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Q: Trying to remember a movie with a mother/son torment scene

Justin WI saw a movie years ago with a pivotal scene toward the end where a young man had tied his mother to a chair and was screaming at her. I can't remember the context, but he was psychologically abusive, perhaps even physically abusive (details are hazy). Any idea what this could be from?

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Q: Why didn't they send another person to verify what Eleanor said?

Bobby AlexanderIn Contact, the major point of contention in the later half is whether Eleanor had actually traveled to another planet or whether she was just hallucinating. Why couldn't they just try again with another person? Or a dozen more for that matter. The machine had already been built and there is no...

 
 
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5:43 AM
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Q: Did Ender Loves Valentine..in a romantic way?

user3204806Yep I know they were siblings but...throughout the movie, he only told Valentine what he feels...he saw her in a game...why not Petra? And I can feel that he loves her in different way...or maybe I have to read the book.

 
 
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7:04 AM
posted on May 19, 2014

With just enough human drama to anchor the sweeping spectacle of giant monsters smashing everything in sight, Gareth Edwards' Godzilla satisfyingly restores the franchise's fire-breathing glory.

posted on May 19, 2014

Pleasant to a fault, Million Dollar Arm is a middle-of-the-plate pitch that coasts on Jon Hamm's considerable charm without adding any truly original curves to Disney's inspirational sports formula.

 
 
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10:19 AM
Can i choice close i hate this reason for closing this question meta.movies.stackexchange.com/questions/1224/…
 
11:02 AM
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Q: Has there ever been a Family Guy episode that featured the screen porch?

Shevliaskovic Has there ever been a Family Guy episode that featured the screen porch? I don't think I have ever seen an episode where the screen porch was featured.

 
11:24 AM
@AnkitSharma Well, that has been discussed already. It was an awfully stupid question asking for the removal of one of the most important categories from the site based on a completely ridiculous premise. But it doesn't seem closable. But well, it isn't the only shitty proposal on meta anyway. If you disagree downvote it, and upvote the equally disagreeing answers.
Rather take a look at some more recent and more important meta discussions.
 
12:05 PM
@ChristianRau: Out of curiosity, do meta proposals stay there for life? Or if something is on, say, neutral or negative votes, does it get deleted after a certain period of time?
 
@AndrewMartin It doesn't get deleted. It's a Q&A site as any other. Which is why it's useful for discussions, but downright useless to record decisions and rules.
 
@ChristianRau: Fair enough, just curious.
On another note, is it just me, or does the number of identify-this-movie/show questions seem to be multiplying?
 
@AndrewMartin I would have said it's just you. But since I would say it is also me, and I guess the other ID-nonlikers would agree that it's them also, it seems more likely that it's not just us, but the site in general. But that is a subjective assessment entirely by me at the moment either. So I don't know and hope it is just us.
 
@ChristianRau: Yeah. I only notice because I rarely answer them as I'm fairly useless at that sort of question. It's certainly subjective, but it might be interesting to run a query on the site to find out. It wouldn't stop me coming back, but I'd be curious to know. Just a slow day in work and so all these thoughts are coming to the front!
 
12:21 PM
@AndrewMartin There have already been some interesting queries in some of the thousands of related meta discussions. I'll see what I can find. But if you just want the numbers of questions, just look at the tags.
Or do you mean a query for the development of the ratio? Not sure how this can be done. Seems a beta site doesn't have access to SE's data functionalities.
 
@ChristianRau: I meant the development of the ratio. I didn't realise it couldn't access some of the functionalities. It's not really a big deal, I'm just curious to know
 
 
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1:29 PM
@ChristianRau for the first example meta question, i am just thinking to put two answer. 1) agree and 2)disagree and by votes we can decide on it.
 
1:45 PM
Posted my answers.
For the second question.......i can only submit upvote's.
 
1:58 PM
@AnkitSharma Hmm, strange, but better than nothing I guess, since most people seem to just agree with the question and thus nobody felt the urge to post an actual answer. Still, seems a bit odd this way.
 
@ChristianRau seen this approach for winterbash discussion over other meta.
@MovieReel we started upvoting week ID's movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19482/…
strange. I thought to close it by saying week ID.
Anyways we have seen worse then that.
 
2:12 PM
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Q: Teens on an island, forced to kill eachother, collars prevents co-operation

Baard KopperudI must admit I'm on shaking ground here, because I haven't seen it, I've just heard this movie menioned once (about five years ago?) - or at least I think it was a movie, but since I think it's based on a book, it may be the book I've heared mentioned. In retrospect, it may have been early talks...

 
2:38 PM
@AnkitSharma Hah, you would wonder (or at least I do often) what stupid ID-questions can gather upvotes. I agree, it can get much worse, but this still doesn't make this question upvotable the slightest. But well, to each his own. Sad when some other great question then desparately waits for upvotes. But that's just the way it is, everybody is an ID expert and thus the target audience is much larger.
 
gday lads
 
And yet again we're talking about ID. Don't let those guys win the chat, too! ;-)
 
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Q: Is "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" really the first episode?

Ayesh KSorry if my question is a silly one. I wasn't even born when the first ever Simpsons episode was aired. I am watching them from the beginning but I'm wondering was there any shows before the S1E01 - "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" ? In the 138th special episode (The Simpsons [7x10] The Simps...

 
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I did just go through a massive purge of useless ID questiosn, we're down to 230 unanswered after that (100+ questions GONE! UGH)
 
2:55 PM
@ChristianRau @TylerShads with the Grief in my heart. I have changed side.
Now i am also in I hate ID club.
 
Aloha
@ChristianRau About the unaired Sherlock pilot: I really only would recommend it if you are a hardcore Sherlock fan. It's basically the same episode.
However I think the ending was slightly different.
Which left the viewer with a slightly different impression about Sherlock. I still liked the reshot better, because it was not as dark.
 
@atticae Well, you don't need to be a hardcore fan to rewatch it now and then (or maybe I am a hardcore fan, well, to be honest I love this show). I haven't watched them in the original yet, anyway (which is a must, considering Cumberbatch's voice, I guess). So I'll keep this in mind. Thanks for the information.
 
Does anyone have a problem with me creating a "pilot" tag for questions about the first episode/beginning of a show? (like the Simpsons one)
Not sure if it is helpful, but we also have an "ending" tag after all.
 
i am cool with that but editing all old pilot related question ....no.
It will bring flood to active question.
 
Haha, no worries. I am not gonna spam the front page
 
3:06 PM
@atticae I have to say that I don't like this approach so much (and don't think it applies too well to that Simpsons question anyway). It seems a bit too specific and those question can probably also be covered by production.
 
Anyways our front page is already spamed with week ID's. :D
@ChristianRau agree with you too.
 
But on the ther hand, there are worse tags and it might be useful in some very rare special cases.
 
@MovieReel bring some question dude. Non-ID please. Need to buck up in rap.
 
Yeah I thought about production, but I think it is too broad, at least if used alone.
 
Anybody watched Godzilla? How is it?
 
3:10 PM
Most of the questions like this are really more about the airing on the network than how the show is produced.
@AnkitSharma Click! ;)
 
@atticae its full of ID. Mid-between non-Id's are non-answerable from my side.
 
You could watch one of those movies and try to find out the answer. :D
 
@AnkitSharma Probably tomorrow. Looking forward to it.
Yeah, I've skimmed the entire list already and nothing seems remotely answerable to me (haven't seen most of them anyway).
@AnkitSharma At least @TomatoBot seems to have watched it and likes it.
 
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Q: Movie similar to "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

Fred JonesI recall another movie or perhaps television episode where a child was abused by a relative and then blamed himself (or maybe herself) for that relative's death. I remember that child wishing the relative's death, then feeling guilty when it actually happened. Any idea?

 
@MovieReel Who would've guessed it: another ID question!
 
3:23 PM
@MovieReel While it can get worse, we definitely need to better enforce all that common info time, location, origin, .... I'm fed up with writing my standard comment everytime. And if I get a response, it's a comment and not a question update. If we are to keep ID, improve the f**king quality standards!
 
@ChristianRau Downvote to oblivion, comment that its bad, and encourage quality
and in 2 weeks, if nothing has improved....BALEETED
if a question reaches -3, it is auto-hidden from the Front Page
or maybe -4
point is, enough downvotes and we can pretend it doesn't exist
And then when I'm havnig a bad day, I have all the more reason to delete shit :DDDDD
 
Ok, I've at least commented and I guess I've chosen a new standard comment for that stuff. SE definitely needs a feature to store such thing in the profile somewhere. In the same way it annoys me to navigate to the canonical "accept" post everytime the need arises.
 
You forgot the downvote ;)
If a question requires you to ask for more information, a downvote is saying "this isn't up to snuff, fix yo shit"
If someone just doesn't want to improve after an influx of downvotes with requests for higher quality and standards, well I don't like them very much :P
 
Finally someone realized how nevertheless valuable and relevant an absolutely unlikely answer can still be if it adresses the question properly. (Beware: self-advertisement, feel free to dismiss)
 
downvoted to oblivion!
 
3:38 PM
@TylerShads Hmm, I don't want to be too impolite (or what many people would consider impolite at least) to a new user. Maybe, with IDs my downvote button sits a bit more loose anyway. Let's first check if it's an unregistered user, then he's fair game anyway.
 
The trend seems to be an Unreg'd user asks an ID question, and never comes back.
 
@TylerShads Trend? I thought that was always the majority case anyway.
 
However, if a user at least registers, they log in at least periodically even if they don't exactly contribute.
I say that because I only have my observations to back things up, not concrete numbers data
I'm too lazy to do a full-out study :p
 
@TylerShads There have been some in meta I guess (but I also guess you know them already).
I shouldn't have begone watching the "Hot Network Questions". Always upset when seeing such a question there. But well, even @Community likes them very much to poll them regularly.
 
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Q: Early 90's childrens's tv show

ColinAll i remember about the show is the baddies wore black and wore a badge with a z on it and i think the main characters came from another planet

 
3:50 PM
@MovieReel C'mon, could you please stop this childish defiance! It doesn't help to strengthen your point in any way and you're really not making yourself honor this way.
 
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Q: What language is shown on the TV here? (The Dark Knight Rises)

Kenny LJWhen Bruce Wayne is in the prison-pit-thing, what is probably the president of the US appears on TV. Underneath, there are some subtitles, in some language. Screenshot: What language is this? It doesn't look like any Indian script (the "Pit" was filmed in India) nor Arabic nor ancient Berber (...

 
4:15 PM
huh strange, the site shows me at the top that there are 4 items to review, but when I click on it all queues say 0
 
4:49 PM
@atticae Happens to me for a while already. In the same way the flag queue seems to have disappeared, too.
 
5:37 PM
@atticae always teh cache
 
 
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6:55 PM
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Q: Old 80s (70s?) animation

Jesus Zamorafor a very long time I have been looking for an animation I saw when I was a child. In it, some sort of parasite in the form of an egg yolk attached itself to the faces of its victims, then jumped at the next as soon as it was done with its previous host. I wish I could give more specifics, but ...

 
7:38 PM
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Q: sherlock flight of the dead?

user3382203Sherlock by far is the best tv series ever. I was watching the episode A Scandal in Belgravia the other day. Everything seemed fine but i didn't get the flight of dead part actually and those people in the beginning who reported of missing persons(2 girls, 0ne man with ashes). Also, the man dead ...

 
 
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8:39 PM
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Q: Do I need to watch the Hannibal movies before I watch the show?

ShevliaskovicI want to watch the TV show Hannibal (2013). Do I need to watch the movies before I watch it, or are they independent?

 
9:37 PM
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Q: Can you tell me the title of this horror movie?

MicaMicaI didn't watch it in entirety, but I think there was a town where a landslide occurred or something like that, and men alike women all went to investigate a cave. They were attacked by some creatures, but almost all of them (dunno, probably someone got killed) escaped, but forgot one of their fem...

 
 
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10:46 PM
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Q: Why do the best chefs in the world go on Masterchef?

thebunkIn the latest (UK) series, Ferran Adrià was prominently featured tasting the contestants food, possibly the most famous in a long line of critically acclaimed multi Michelin starred chefs. Presumably they don't get paid much for appearing, and most of them have extremely long waiting lists for t...

 
11:36 PM
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Q: Where is the music from the Interstellar trailer from?

yelxeThe trailer for the new Christopher Nolan film "Interstellar" was just released. The music used is very familiar but I cannot pin down the source. It is present throughout the whole clip, but is most familiar from time index 1:25. Interstellar trailer on YouTube

 

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