... May I ask a question about it?

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Oct 29, 2012 at 20:26	comment	added	user366		@Gilles I'm sorry you won't listen to reason and take this answer at its merits. As someone who is intimately familiar with the Stack Exchange platform, surely you must recognize that "don't do it"/"your approach to the problem is flawed" is a valid answer to a problem. Of course, as the currently highest-voted answer on this question, obviously several members of the community agree with my assessment, and your attempts to dismiss it as a "tangent" or "personal resentment" are not constructive.
Oct 29, 2012 at 20:17	comment	added	user56		The only connection between the DKR question and this one is that a remark in your answer about DKR prompted me to ask it. This question itself is however not about DKR. It is unfortunate that you are hijacking a community discussion as a platform about a different issue. I am, of course, not going to censor it: you are free to say what you like. But please, think of the good of the community before any personal resentment you may have against me.
Oct 29, 2012 at 20:15	comment	added	user56		“You're the one who made the connection by shutting down discussion”: this is a serious accusation. Please justify it.
Oct 29, 2012 at 20:00	comment	added	user366		@Gilles You're the one who made the connection by shutting down discussion and insisting we talk about your defense of the DKR question here. But, despite your mischaracterization of the issue in that comment, there is no new policy to discuss: you just completely missed the point. So the only thing one can do is explain that to you and how your question is fundamentally misguided. Again, read my answer. You're attempting to draw a line that does not need to be drawn.
Oct 29, 2012 at 19:30	comment	added	user56		This question exists because I asked it. And I purposefully did not ask about a specific situation, such as the Dark Knight Rises question. Neither the DKR question nor the GR close reason are relevant here (I explicitly specified that the asker has done what usually comes up when GR is discussed). Again, please tell us where you draw the line. Is it ok if I haven't seen an old movie that isn't easily available? What about a new movie that isn't distributed in my country yet? How doe this carry over to other media?
Oct 29, 2012 at 14:58	comment	added	user366		@Gilles Re-read my answer: you don't have to "suspect" or "hope" anything. I explicitly state the reason why movies count as basic research. Trying to attach an aburdist argument to it is largely pointless, because—just like Arda XI said yesterday when you tried to do it then— nobody expects you to know everything about the canon to ask a question. Watching a 2 hour movie is not even in the same league as watching every Doctor Who episode ever.
Oct 29, 2012 at 14:54	comment	added	user366		@Gilles I know what you wrote about, and what you attempted to ask about. I reframed it because you completely missed the point. Nobody's arguing that if someone actually did the research they can't ask a question. Nobody could argue it, because it's absurd. So let's actually talk about the thing that someone is arguing for, namely me, and the reason why this question even exists.
Oct 29, 2012 at 8:20	comment	added	user56		Why is there a difference between movies and other forms of media? I suspect (and hope) that you don't think it's necessary to have watched every single episode of Doctor Who to ask questions about it, but it would be helpful if you were more explicit. Is it ok to ask about a short story that I haven't read? Is is ok to ask about a movie I haven't seen if that movie was released 50 years ago and never came out in DVD?
Oct 29, 2012 at 8:17	comment	added	user56		“But what we're really talking about asking a question blindly: that is, I know nothing about a movie, didn't do any preliminary research, but I want to ask a question about it.” No, this is not what I asked about. Which is why I wrote in my question: “I've read a little about the book/movie/…, checked its Wikipedia article, googled a bit” — precisely to avoid the cases where on the face of the official description (by Jeff, not by me), general reference would not apply. My question here has nothing to do with the example that you expound on.
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Oct 29, 2012 at 2:00	history	answered	user366	CC BY-SA 3.0