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I'll borrow one of the points from the existing answer, for voting purposes. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have. However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for ...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭ · edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Canina‭ · 2021-12-19T16:21:41Z (about 3 years ago)

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I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the example above the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the impression of a lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous, similar ones by the same user sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the example above the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the impression of a lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous, similar ones (by the same user, even) sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

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Canina‭ · 2021-12-19T16:17:04Z (about 3 years ago)

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I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the impression of a lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous, similar ones by the same user sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the example above the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the impression of a lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous, similar ones by the same user sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

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Canina‭ · 2021-12-19T16:14:30Z (about 3 years ago)

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I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous ones sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the impression of a lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous, similar ones by the same user sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

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Canina‭ · 2021-12-19T16:12:02Z (about 3 years ago)

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I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible" type of question; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous ones sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.
> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.
However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**
The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional question along the lines of "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible"; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.
The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)
Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous ones sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.
**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

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Canina‭ · 2021-12-19T12:05:10Z (about 3 years ago)

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I'll borrow one of the points from [the existing answer](https://outdoors.codidact.com/posts/284299/284797#answer-284797), for voting purposes.

> 1. Decide they are off-topic and close the ones we have.

However, I'm also willing to carve out an exception for **pictures that the poster has a clear personal connection to *and* provides meaningful context for *and* relevant details about *and* clearly shows that they have tried and failed to answer the question before asking of others to do it.**

The problem, as I see it, **isn't** the occasional "a deceased relative of mine was on a tour through AnArea, SomeCountry in the early 1980s, and took the three pictures below, and now I'm trying to figure out where they were at the time; here's what I know, here's what I have already tried and how that didn't help me (or: how that helped narrow down the possibilities), please help me pinpoint the location as accurately as possible" type of question; **but rather** the barrage of "pinpoint the location from where the picture below was taken" questions where the user posting them *obviously* has *no* personal connection to the scene (it might, for example, be something taken from a book or a movie), shows *no* evidence of having tried to find the answer before asking of others to do that work and provides very little to no context for the picture.

The latter type of post is highly problematic from a copyright perspective (personal photos are generally also covered by copyright, of course, but in a case such as the latter example the copyright holder is probably less likely to sue for copyright infringement); shows a blatant lack of respect for the time of others; and seems to me to be unlikely to provide much, if any, value to others. (It also raises the question of what the person posting the question will even *do* with the answer, assuming that one is given.)

Dumping half a dozen such questions on the community in a very short amount of time just adds insult to injury. Also, as has unfortunately been the case with a number of such questions, when the person posting them can't even be bothered to restrict each post to what's actually relevant to the specific question, that only serves to reinforce the lack of respect for others. Continuing to post the same type of question even when many previous ones sit fairly heavily downvoted doesn't help either.

**Outdoors Codidact should not be a dumping ground for every outdoors photo ever taken or even just published even if one prefixes it with "where was this photo taken?".**

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