On Arqade, where I hail from, identify-this-game questions have a special place in moderator's hearts. The same place that pilots have when they hear members of news media try to speak intelligently about aviation, or people talking really slow on 121.8.
The question I asked just now, There's an airfield somewhere in the United States with a metal runway. Where is it?, would be one of those questions.
Here's some copy-paste from (one of the many) Arqade meta discussions on this topic:
The current policy is that any question asking to identify a game or modification is off-topic for this site.
The reasons brought forward behind the policy are that:
History shows the criteria in these questions are necessarily:
warped by time and memory
possibly wrong altogether
insufficient to identify just one game
From this last point it follows that the only person who can identify the one right question is the asker himself.
The asker might have stopped checking for questions
The asker might be summarily dismissing what's actually the "right" answer over a discrepancy between what he recalls and what the game actually is
Mind reading and 20 question guessing games are not what we're experts in
These questions are not helpful to the internet at large
It is difficult to close these questions as duplicate. You might theoretically have two ITG questions with the same body and two different answers - both "correct". You also can have two different questions with the same answer.
These questions have lower view counts and vote counts than average
These questions typically do poorly in converting new users into frequent users
Do we want this question type on Aviation.SE?
