The Danny Boyle movie Trance is riddled with false memory and flashbacks. Enough to leave it unclear, even at the end, who first decided to steal the painting at the heart of the theft that kicks off the movie.
Every version, even the one I think the movie wants us to believe, seems to have hol...
I've been looking or this film for about 4 years it's an old film one which my sister and I used to watch back in the late 90s early 00s. It was a VHS almost silent film except for sound effects and gasps and giggles. It's about these the three men who end up at a house on a cliff and in this hou...
Action movie I think. Somewhere near the beginning of the movie someone is in one of those elevators with outward facing windows so one can see a panoramic vista open before them as the elevator ascends. As the lift nears the top a helicopter rises menacingly in front of it, hovering. Then the p...
I am looking for a Film series which had 5-6 parts where: a blond highschool kid meets up with a white haired scientist and are being chased by a black guy who uses a exosuit into different dimensions or time.
The white haired scientist pretends to be the friend of the highschool kid until near ...
The brilliant modern animated movie The Triplets of Belleville (also known as Belleville Rendez-Vous)is both moving as a story and has beautifully stylistic animation. The images are clearly meant to look like a standard hand-drawn animation but some scenes seem to contain vivid images that look ...
In the underrated Polanski movie The Ninth Gate, Jonny Depp plays a dodgy antique book dealer, Corso, who is hired by a rich collector, Balkan, to verify the authenticity of a rare dark book The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows.
In the course of his quest he is impeded by the wife of the boo...
could anybody identify this TV series. The main character was a black man and was killed in an accident, didn't want to die, Death (who reeeally diggs Sarah Michelle Gellar) gave mercy so the dude could go on living as a dead person. Only thing was that he couldn't go to cellars and stuff before ...
There was a recent trailer (within last year) for a movie about a romance based on a book the guy wrote. But it turns out the book isn't his. He found it in an attic?? I thought it was Silver Linings Playbook. Good movie but that wasn't it. I thought the title had the word "book" in it but I...
@iandotkelly I see that Tom is already over "repairing" the current "site problems". But before I join in I wanted to ask if there is any easier mod-tool for such large scale edits/undos (since I guess we all agree that the state of the respective questions 1 hour ago is preferable)?
@coleopterist There isn't really happening much here to be polluted anyway. And I guess this incident has taken a scale that should interest anyone actively involved in the site, anyway.
@ChristianRau yeah, got the ones with titles (or other edits) that where definitely better than they were before. Wasn't sure how we were going to handle it, so figured I shouldn't just rollback everything
@Tom Yeah, in some cases it's really not necessary to edit it (hehe). But there have been more severe things like spoilers, non-understandable ID-questions and tag changes, which definitely need to be repaired.
@coleopterist well, that's thing. You haven't... up until the rollback war and continuing the unneccessarily heated discussion with JSO. So there's no need to stop editing posts just because of this incident.
He did not take things to meta. Instead he simply rolled back again and I informed him that I would happily roll back all his changes as this was policy and that he should take it to meta.
The fact that JSO did not take matters to meta is what should be at question. The fact that he did so even after me explaining matters to him is what should be at question.
@iandotkelly Sure. But what was his reason for including the tag in the title?
@Tom Sure I could have. But there already is a meta post for that very reason. The one that I linked him to. He could simply have added an answer saying why he disagreed with the policy and why there ought to be exceptions.
I had to choose one. And in my opinion in the case where it is not violating clear policy of the site - the OP has some natural precidence over another editor
I don't care about intruige
That was JSO's point
My point - there is a dispute - JSO is the author, his edit seems acceptable
I couldn't care less about his reason for preferring it.
Reason 2: Stackexchange functions based on the currency of reputation and badges. If I had a question about the Dark Knight and included the tag in my question's title, then it would a) be more visible to other users and b) be better ranked in search engines. More visits = more answers and more badges / rep. Whether this really matters is purely a matter of opinion.
In other words, all users would prefer to have tags in their titles. I would want my question title to read "What was the point of the wolf scene in Fantastic Mr. Fox?" rather than "What was the point of the wolf scene?"
No, this is about the policy of not having tags in titles. By allowing exceptions for JSO, this affects all others users whose questions have been edited (most often by yours truly) to remove tags.
@coleopterist And perhaps nobody complained about all my edits as they also thought they had no right to complain. Possible? Perhaps. Valid reason to undo all my edits? I don't think so.
@coleopterist I think the current rule/guideline is that it's preferred not to have tags in titles, but there's nothing saying that you can't. If someone doesn't like the title being edited, too me, the original version (as long as it's not against the rules) takes precedence over the edited version.
@ChristianRau Sure. But as I said, IMO that having the tag in the title actually does improve your chances at better rep/badges. Most people might not care. But I've edited everybody's questions.
As you have noted in the past, I've even edited closed questions :S
but it doesn't mean that you shouldn't edit the titles in the first place, the preferred way is always the preferred way. But if people argue about an edit, if it's not against the rules, then I think the original version should be the final one.
@Tom Sure. But if a person is applying policy to a question and the OP disagrees with it, it should be up to the OP to go to meta and reason things out.
Personally, I prefer to avoid entering any comment below a question that is not about the content. When disputes arise, I always tell people to take things to meta where stuff can be reasoned out and the community can act on matters together.
This is what I did here. The fact that JSO didn't bother to do it is entirely his issue. Quoting him "but I never saw this as needing to come to Meta in the first place, I thought it wasn't in any way a big deal," <--- even after I requested him to do so.
Furthermore, I would have also liked to have seen confirmation from the mods and other users that this whole tags in titles policy is not seemingly my policy as JSO has repeated claimed or that I am unilaterally enforcing it.
Yes, I did the right thing. He did the wrong thing. I might have done too much of the right thing. But it was nevertheless the right thing.
You entered into a rollback war for which the only outcome was one or other edit to be adjudicated as acceptable. The reasons I chose JSO's has been already stated
As for the policy - you correctly pointed him at meta
It is true however that you are applying your interpretation of a meta discussion - in a different way to how I interpret it
I disagree with any policy that it's fine to allow tags in titles based on the OP's whimsy. There are surely exceptions. But they have to be reasoned exceptions. Yes, this might be a minor issue in the grand scheme of things.
shrug then we come back to the point of what is "policy". If the policy is to not have tags in titles except in cases where the OP insists on it, then that is fine. (It is also silly.)
You are certainly welcome to your opinion, but we also have to remember that we should be welcoming to people - and some people find edits to be disagreeable
@iandotkelly Yes, you seem to be fine with a system that is held together by worn out shoe strings. I am not. I like things to be organised and compartmentalised. You will also find that most people consider SE to actually be a library.
In any event, I will be exploiting this li'l loophole for all that it's worth as I will be including title tags in my questions. I want lots of badges.
Honestly I don't think that will make a blind bit of difference, and to think of it as a loophole to be exploited is ..... disappointing, but its your preference.
@coleopterist And I will (un)happily clean those up whereever it clutters the title or hinders reading pleasure (and out of a distaste for users abusing "loopholes" to gain strange advantages from the system, now that I know the true reason for your future cluttered question titles).
@coleopterist Well, I don't know where you stand in continuing to edit peoples posts... but if everything is back to normal except for the part where you're going to include tags in all your titles, then I'd say we accomplished something at least :)
Two years ago I saw this show and I think it was a recent episode. In it there was some kind of institution and in this institution there was a little boy. I think the whole place might have been for children but I'm not sure. The boy is about eight I think and he won't talk though I think later ...
In the Time of the Doctor context,
did she do that by holding on to the outer edge of the TARDIS and travel through time and space that way?
There was a recent trailer (within last year) for a movie about a romance based on a book the guy wrote. But it turns out the book isn't his. He found it in an attic?? I thought it was Silver Linings Playbook. Good movie but that wasn't it. I thought the title had the word "book" in it but I...
Anybody has an idea who this actor might be? or knows the title of the movie?
The Screening Room
The Screening Room