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I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/https://superuser.com/questions/56865/

http://superuser.com/questions/118252/https://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question

http://superuser.com/questions/167760/https://superuser.com/questions/167760/

I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/

http://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question

http://superuser.com/questions/167760/

I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

https://superuser.com/questions/56865/

https://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question

https://superuser.com/questions/167760/

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I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/
  

http://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed closed as duplicate of above question
  

http://superuser.com/questions/167760/

I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/
 http://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question
 http://superuser.com/questions/167760/

I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/ 

http://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question 

http://superuser.com/questions/167760/

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Questions asking for manual identification of fonts?

I've seen several question related to fonts on SU. While I do believe that fonts can be considered software related, I've noticed that a subset of those questions asks superusers to manually identify font from provided set of letters.
In my opinion such questions do not belong on SuperUser. If the question was about some software which would identify fonts, then that would be OK, but I believe that questions such as ones I am complaining about here are as related to SuprUser as question where the OP would post a link to a mp3 file containing part of a song and ask us what's the name of the song.

I ask you what is your opinion on this.

Here are some examples:

http://superuser.com/questions/56865/
http://superuser.com/questions/118252/ closed as duplicate of above question
http://superuser.com/questions/167760/