Timeline for Rock identification questions are now off topic. Old questions will be deleted. Should we retain any?
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| Jul 17, 2023 at 12:39 | comment | added | theforestecologist | @gerrit. Ok. But the link works. Thanks | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 6:40 | comment | added | gerrit Mod | @theforestecologist Sorry, no. I agree your question was well-received, but if we keep some rock-id questions open, we're going to get more. Can you see the contents of your question yourself? If not, let me know and we'll find a way to give you a copy that you can use to follow-up with other contacts. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 4:12 | comment | added | theforestecologist | @gerrit Can I get my rock ID post reopened? I thought I had included a lot of effort. (I do not have enough rep on this SE to see my deleted post to link to it, but high-rep users will see it under my profile). I remember thinking it was well-received and not typical of the quality of posts that became more the norm. [also, I would greatly appreciate access to it so I can follow-up on it with a new rock expert contact of mine] | |
| Aug 26, 2020 at 10:51 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 26, 2020 at 6:25 | comment | added | gerrit Mod | @John Please add that as an answer, as this may not be clear to everybody (I'm an atmospheric guy myself and know little more than lay people about rocks or fossils). | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | John | Please note Fossil identification is not the same as rock identification. Fossil identification is still considered on topic and should not be closed as rock identification. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 7:15 | answer | added | peterh | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Aug 29, 2019 at 9:09 | comment | added | gerrit Mod | I will have time to look into this in October. | |
| Aug 29, 2019 at 8:53 | answer | added | user12525 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 27, 2019 at 10:55 | comment | added | user12525 | gerrit I am untaging the questions that are not related with rocks and closing the rest, so the list will be clean for the deletion task where I can't help. | |
| Aug 13, 2019 at 10:13 | comment | added | gerrit Mod | @GaryKindel I am sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the decision. It does appear that there is a community consensus agreeing with it though, although not unanimously so. | |
| Aug 10, 2019 at 12:23 | comment | added | Earth Science Expatriate | What a poor decision,based on only 11 upvotes. I voted down and to do it at the end of July? also. I hadn't been on the site for awhile largely because of the complaining about identification questions and than some many questions were put on hold with in a day of being asked. Too much personal preferences being expressed and not enough actual science went into this decision (based on the anwesers below). This whole situation has soured me on this site. | |
| Aug 2, 2019 at 4:32 | comment | added | Andrew T. | I'm not sure if you have seen this, but as a fellow site who has banned identification questions, perhaps this 3-step (deprecation-blacklisting-delete & lock) clean-up on Anime.SE may give you and anyone an idea on whether to retain (and put the historical lock on) some questions. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | Semidiurnal Simon | @MichaelWalsby Geology is not off-topic. However, questions asked here should not be so specific that they are only relevant to the person asking them. The site has been dominated by "what is this rock?" questions that are not of interest to anybody other than the asker, and in most cases lack information so that they are unanswerable anyway. Many of us agree that that will put off other people from the site, as described here: earthscience.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1758/… | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 18:13 | comment | added | user12525 | Michael the problem is there are a lot of questions. This site is not only for geologist and the homepage is the page you visit first. The questions are poor in most of cases and need review work. Also I do not have seen you at review, where a couple of geologist would be needed. We cannot ask oceanographers meteorologist etc to do it since it is not their subjects. At worldbuilding maybe you can manage it, but not here presently. Practically allbody wants to close it. | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 17:31 | comment | added | Semidiurnal Simon | @gerrit the new custom close reason that briefly existed seems to have gone away, possibly during the outage yesterday... | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 9:52 | comment | added | Michael Walsby | Mineral identification is an important part of geology, and I can't see why geology should be off-topic. Turning new users away discourages them from taking a fuller interest in earth sciences. | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 17:45 | comment | added | user12525 | In the review I did, the exceptions could be counted with the fingers of one hand. There is uhoh exception for the reasons given and there are a few question tagged with identification-request for things that are meteorology related. I guess in that cases the simpliest is to edit the question removing the tag. If nobody looses reputation I would remove all the rest and they will move to other site to ask when google make the next raster I guess. | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 16:12 | comment | added | Semidiurnal Simon | Wheeee! :-) Glad to see this. | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 16:09 | answer | added | Semidiurnal Simon | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 9:59 | answer | added | Gimelist | timeline score: 8 | |
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