Timeline for Is explaining the existence or construction of Easter eggs in scope?
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| Aug 15, 2017 at 14:57 | history | edited | randomMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:25 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | Fine. In that case I would have to say that "fun" is perfectly fine if it is within the spirit and on-topic rules of the site. Your question is essentially "What is $RANDOM_THING$?" with no explanation of what that thing is. At that point "bad.horse" could be anything at all, and I could easily answer, it's a song from a TV miniseries and close it as off topic or form being unclear. Websites and webapps are off topic here and this really has very little to do with your local computer beyond being able to run the command locally, it is more about internal website setup. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:14 | comment | added | Hashim Aziz | @Mokubai - Pedantry over the definition of an easter egg is irrelevant to the question - we're discussing whether fun questions in general are allowed on the site. Again, take a look at the many questions I linked above, and then apply your arbitrary list of criteria to each one of them, and report back on how many of them are "off-topic". This has become SE's MO as of the last few years - the selective, arbitrary implementation of rules just broad enough to be useful whenever a moderator should fancy doing so. It's hypocritical and disingenuous. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:06 | comment | added | Mokubai Mod | While you could, loosely, call this "interesting" it is not really an easter egg in that it is not hidden in a program on your computer. One of my criteria for this would be whether it is repeatable by anyone with the requisite software at any time and this is liable to disappear at the whim of the owner. It is also not really about a "home" computer hardware or software problem, it's about how a set of computer servers on the internet are set up. Saying "hey, isn't this neat?" (your question) is different to asking how to set this sort of thing up. | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 22:38 | history | edited | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2017 at 22:09 | history | edited | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2017 at 22:07 | answer | added | DavidPostillMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 22:06 | history | edited | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 14, 2017 at 21:58 | history | asked | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |