Timeline for What are the rules about loading images as part of queries?
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| Dec 2, 2020 at 21:46 | comment | added | Andrew Truckle | @AdrianB38 I think the limit on editing comments has always been. Same on the other sites I am linked with. | |
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| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:27 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Grrr - Facebook doesn't allow n/l in comments either.... But I'd not met the 5m window before. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:22 | comment | added | user6485 | @AdrianB38 No new lines in comments, I'm afraid. And yes a 5 minute editing window. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:08 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Furthermore I am about to go totally Victor Meldrew about SE's comment editor! Twice I attempted to insert a new line, which posted the comment, so I edited to carry on - but I can only edit for 5m it seems!!!! | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 19:05 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | That's the only one?!!! Well, never mind the length (which you are right about), I'd suggest that people probably can't find it anyway, given that there's nothing from outside to direct anyone to it. (That's the 2nd time I've tried to put a new line in!!!) No, in view of that limitation and the possibility of the clash with SE's page, I think that you're right, and there's little else that we can do. TBH, I suspect that I was overly surprised by a question about a Medal Index Card that removed crucial info and thought that surely we can do better. Based on your comments, I'm not sure we can | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 17:48 | comment | added | user6485 | @AdrianB38 genealogy.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic is the only Help page we can customise and it's getting so long people don't read it. We do regularly ask for more info when there isn't enough to answer the question -- I'm not sure this is any different. I also don't think it's wise of us to add anything to what SE say on their legal page about copyright etc. (all sorts of legal ramifications if we do, I suspect). | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Asking for the extra information makes sense but I worry that a comeback like that might be judged unfriendly if we haven't prepared people beforehand. So how about something in the FAQ to say that cropping or blurring to avoid XXX is advised (?) Please try to supply enough information to enable us to answer the question - we'll ask you to supply more if we can't answer... Something to set expectations. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 17:26 | comment | added | user6485 | @AdrianB38 by asking for extra info? If the user provides it in plain text rather than exposing more of their image, that should be safer. (Of course, if they can't read the image, that's an issue). | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 17:04 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Point 4 - yes, it's the "enough to make the question make sense" angle that's tricky. I said above that "the Medal Index Card, blurred to the extent that it was, provided almost no useful information to allow the question to be answered." Certainly not if the soldier's name was John Smith. The 2nd image, of the Medal Roll, below, I didn't have a problem with, because all the info for that guy was visible. On the other hand, expecting all users to understand what constitutes "enough info" is liable to be impossible for a non-expert to understand... Err... Not sure how to overcome that. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Point 3 - yes, on reflection you are absolutely correct - I was trying to answer a question (TNA, Crown Copyright, etc) that was (a) too complex, (b) only a minor part of the whole anyway. | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 16:42 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | Points 1 & 2 - agreed. | |
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