Premise: Individual sites have some discretion but SE rules. Conclusion: Blogs such as “Lets go shopping” apply to TSE. Final sentence there is “Every question and answer ultimately should be about teaching and learning -- yes, even the shopping ones.”
Ergo: shopping is not off-topic per se. Corollary: “a question asking about buying camping gear in the Balkans” is on topic (if asked well). Q: Is sourcing material when away from home on topic at TSE? A: By precedent, Yes. Conclusion: “Where in Jerusalem …?” is on topic for someone who does not live there.
Test: Does that fit “ask us what you need to learn to tell what you should buy"? IMO yes (the location). But is that "Travel"? Yes, Jerusalem is not your base.
Test: Is it ephemeral ("But that answer will only be valid for a year at best.")? IMO no - what is available in the shops may change rapidly but Best Buy / Cash Converters don't have a habit of disappearing overnight.
@JoErNanO well, why not.. at the end I have spend two days with hippietrail.. and once you do that once, you will have no problem doing so many times :D :D
@GayotFow true, I know many cases.. where bad answers got lots of votes just because they were the first,, and people will add more votes just because it has more votes!! while newer better answers are low on votes..
Unfortunately I didn't know that Czech Republic doesn't have tollbooths—drivers are required to purchase a sticker before getting on any highway—until I arrived in Prague.
What happens next? I imagine they're going to ticket my rental company (Avis)—but what are hte fines, and is there any way I...
“The reasoning here is that it would be somewhat hard to show the proof of purchase to a camera driving by an automatic control.” is a bit suspect when the payment of a motorway sticker … is checked only when one gets stopped at a manned police control point. :)
@pnuts oh there you are! you need to also take into account the types of shopping questions that we have been rejecting. note that i didn't closevote or downvote this question. just initiated the discussion on how to save the question if that did happen, as turned out to be the case.
@NeAnDerthal: i'm applying for a visa to philae tomorrow
@pnuts: i'm not really in a position to analyse it right now since i can't log in to SE. i'm surprised chat is still working. also i'm tired after a long day of fighting with bluetooth and trying to google without google (-:
i suggest another meta question on shopping questions
but i'm sure we all don't want to open the floodgates of "where can i buy shin ramyeon in wisconsin" and "where can i buy a hp stream 7 cover or case in guangzhou"
well it is current though so a good time to tackle it if anyone else is interested. probably the OP and one or more of the closevoters ought to be interested though
Interesting, but difficult to find a line to draw between your examples and eg Organic grocer in Tuscany - except that I can see none of those really belonging because any one specific recommendation is liable to outdate and another become more suitable. The A needs to be something like "Akihabara".
usually just the stuff you need for travel. say mountainclimbing equipment. and stuff people travel to buy, such as cheap electronics and cameras in hong kong.
well that's why we have our own meta and our own mods
But I get (easily) confused - SE seems to say one thing, a site another, which is 'reliable'? Note the TSE Help center points to the (SE) blog I mentioned, I have not found on TSE your excellent rule of thumb.
I just read his introduction to the bonus and it does not mention 'personally taken pictures' so I assume that the usual rules for the site apply.
But if you have a photo that can help with an answer to that question, one you took yourself, use it, I would expect he will appreciate it better than a random 'picked off the web' pick.
That's very reasonable (and I expect applies in general) but Gayot/JoErNanO have been batting this about on chat and might have made more specific arrangements between themselves.
I now wonder if I know someone that has such a sticker on his car, and whether I can take a photo. I know quite a few people who travel to Slovakia, not that many who do go to or through Czech republic.
@Willeke I think they make the poster responsible and that, in theory, all licencing issues on SE are very complex. However I doubt SE counts as a commercial site so difficult to fine based on exploitation. Mostly I think reasonably safe provided an image is removed if there is a reasonable objection
In practice it seems very unlikely anyone would object to most usage on TSE - often it is free advertising for the 'owner'. Logos may be particularly sensitive and I know I used one for Cognito (on Web Apps), and Cognito have seen and effectively approved it. May be muddied by an owner claiming "you can't do that" even when you can.
I think SE's rules are basically "comply with the Owner's rules".
Some people object to any use for which you are not paying, others do not mind at all. I just checked, my photos are set to creative commons, which basically means that you are welcome to use as long as you do not make money out of it.
I am trying to read a legal text about the setting to selected for my photos, and instead of the English I was expecting I get a Dutch translation. Very nice, except that they also translated the names of the different versions and I do not recognize them from the English version.
Getty Images went after a friend for a HUGE sum (I think paid, but perhaps after negotiating down a bit) for an image on his site that, if I remember correctly, had been up for several years, had been provided by a 3rd party and listed as ‘open source’ (but Getty claimed it was a modification of one they owned – nothing special, just a cocktail glass).
Good reason to be careful with what you do with pictures on internet.
On my site you will only find images I made myself, with one exception for the logo of the guild, which all members have permission to use.
If I ever find one of my pictures somewhere else I can sue them (not that I want) as I hold copyright.
For photos I put on flickr I have very many less restrictions, I just found out I do not restrict to non commercial, which makes sense as I set these limits for that site which was commercial.
I will try that car without a vignet q tomorrow, bedtime here.
@Willeke that would make a great competition photo.
@pnuts @Willeke The rules for pictures are stated. Basically we follow se rules and want people to reference provenance and licence, the later if applicable.
@Willeke Yes if you search on se help you'll find a part on content and one on pictures. I'm in the app now so I can't link it to you. ;)
i know that i can also use an immigration lawyer to do it for me, but i want to understand how can an immigration agency (like Canadianvisaexpert) help me, and what are the differences.
Missed a Schengen Visa appointment at Netherlands embassy. What can I do?
