Timeline for Are questions such as "Can you identify this rock?" on-topic
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| Jul 30, 2019 at 16:12 | comment | added | Semidiurnal Simon | Note that (five years later) rock identification questions are now off topic: earthscience.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1768/… | |
| Jul 30, 2019 at 9:28 | answer | added | gerritMod | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 0:36 | answer | added | haresfur | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 0:08 | comment | added | naught101 | Ah, sorry Chris, I should read better :( thanks for the guide, it's great. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 23:42 | comment | added | Chris Mueller | @naught101 In my comment I linked to a guide for asking such questions. Following any of those suggestions would have made it a more well posed question. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 22:54 | comment | added | naught101 | how could it have been posed better? | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 14:40 | comment | added | Chris Mueller | The question you linked wasn't very well posed, and for that it probably deserved to be closed. I think we should be less worried about duplicates and more worried about getting users to post quality questions that can actually be answered. That is the reason I started a guide for asking such questions. If we intend to be a community which invites amateur earth scientists, then I think it would be a bad idea to simply ban this type of question since I expect it will come up often. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 5:10 | comment | added | naught101 | As I noted there, I think the big problem with questions like these is that there's no way for the questioner to know whether they're posting a duplicate - all the information is visual, and therefore almost impossible to search for (basically, the user is asking for the appropriate search term - the name of the rock). The built in duplicate-detector won't really work, because it doesn't show images, and most people aren't going to check every "what's this rock" duplicate manually before posting theirs... but it's certainly on-topic here... seems like a bit of a conundrum to me. | |
| Apr 22, 2014 at 5:06 | comment | added | naught101 | Note that we have our own example here. | |
| Apr 17, 2014 at 23:33 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 17:39 | answer | added | Robert Cartaino | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 15:42 | history | asked | Chris Mueller | CC BY-SA 3.0 |