Timeline for Why do so many identify-this questions feature odd or archaic words for landscape features?
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| May 31, 2020 at 9:11 | comment | added | Nij | At least two of the users listed as the writer of these questions have asked extremely similar types of question on other sites (to the point where they are almost identical in style, layout, intent, and timeliness)(and I had to check whether it was actually a change of name, but no, separate accounts). CMs should be checking on these as an upscale version of sockpuppeting for rep. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 6:30 | comment | added | guest | It could also be that somebody spreaded the word about how good this site is in identifying pictures in their region. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 14:11 | comment | added | Chris H | @guest I'd be cautious reading anything into the rep for two reasons: at the time I made the post linked above, several of the accounts were banned from at least one other network site for "voting irregularities". Even ignoring that, the system of +10 for upvotes and -2 for downvotes means that asking lots of low quality questions is no obstacle to high rep anyway | |
| May 28, 2020 at 13:26 | comment | added | guest | The user 'Accounting' at least seems to have some reputation on this and other sites. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 12:38 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | @RoddyoftheFrozenPeas my point is indeed that they are common in certain areas. You spend time in Wales, you'll say cwm. You live in the north of England, tarn and beck. The southwest of England, tor. But the questions are about Japan, Quebec, Switzerland … not places where people use those words. It's … odd. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 12:01 | answer | added | TooTea | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 28, 2020 at 7:40 | comment | added | Chris H | I've had the same suspicions for a long time (hence this post). Similarities between those accounts (and a couple more) go way beyond what you've mentioned here, for the record, especially if you look at other network sites. Several have extremely picky elderly grandparents in Canada, several love to ask about the "underlying semantic notion" of words which have changed meaning, several love to ask for extremely specific explanations of long quotes from law and accounting textbooks... I could go on | |
| May 28, 2020 at 6:28 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft | @curiousdannii: Using socks to serially ask low-quality questions makes some sense: You regain the benefit of doubt and new-user bonus and you avoid question bans. Of course, there is an easier way, namely to learn how to ask proper questions. | |
| May 28, 2020 at 6:14 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas | Cwm, tarn, sure they're pretty esoteric. But dell? That's pretty common -- there was a children's song we'd sing (90's, US) "the farmer in the dell". And "tor" is decently common in certain regions (eg Dartmoor). | |
| May 28, 2020 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/1265885517641588736 | ||
| May 28, 2020 at 0:23 | comment | added | curiousdannii | If it's who I think it is, then I haven't found an explanation that makes sense. Some people just love writing hundreds of low quality questions. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 17:11 | comment | added | Willeke Mod | I have my suspicions, but not enough to even talk about, even less take action. (But sock puppets is not unlikely.) | |
| May 27, 2020 at 16:10 | history | asked | Kate Gregory | CC BY-SA 4.0 |