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Meta What is our position on picture identification with no research?

I'm separating this for voting purposes (since the other answer already has votes). In another answer I proposed some options for dealing with picture-identification questions. The "mildest" of t...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2021-12-19T01:51:39Z (over 2 years ago)
I'm separating this for voting purposes (since the other answer already has votes).

In [another answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797) I proposed some options for dealing with picture-identification questions.  The "mildest" of these options, in terms of disruption to the community, is:

> 3. Decide they are ok in limited numbers and have a rule that any given person can have one such *unanswered* question at a time. This might encourage askers to either improve the existing question in hopes of getting an answer or delete it to make room for another. (We don't have any tooling for this, but on a community Somewhere Else we had voluntary rules about posting frequency for one category of questions, and the community largely followed it and enforced it when necessary.)

Some time has passed since this question was asked.  Should we try this -- ID questions are ok (as they seem to be, by default, now), but you can only have one active one at a time?

I'm concerned that a site named "Outdoors" looks, to the casual visitor, more and more like a photo-ID site and less like a site where you can get answers about mountain biking, kayaking, camping, and so on.