Topic: Details: How much , how little?

[datsone]

A newbie question: I posted a puzzle answer that quoted text. After thinking about it, it seemed that the quoted material was only one step removed from posting a direct link to the source - which is prohibited. Other answers I've seen would allow the same thing with a bit of googling. Is it general practice to paraphrase to prevent this rather than providing too much detail that could lead to the source site, like altering photo details to protect their origin?

So many of these unique cars have stories to tell!

[Carnut]

Yes, of course it's generally possible to find the source once the answer is known, but still it's preferred if people who want to do their own finding do it rather than providing them with the very easy route.  In fact you'll find most don't actually bother to look for the source, which they do if there's a link...

Personally I like to provide extra information/photos once one of my puzzles is solved, because I view this as the world's best on-line archive of the rare and unusual.

[nicanary]

Yes, of course it's generally possible to find the source once the answer is known, but still it's preferred if people who want to do their own finding do it rather than providing them with the very easy route.  In fact you'll find most don't actually bother to look for the source, which they do if there's a link...

Personally I like to provide extra information/photos once one of my puzzles is solved, because I view this as the world's best on-line archive of the rare and unusual.

I fully agree, which is why I sometimes add on a few pieces of information to a solved puzzle even if it's not my own. I personally don't see the point in just saying the bare facts, like year,make and model, if there's a bigger story to be told.

As Carnut says, this is without doubt the most complete record of rare and unusual cars on the entire internet, and I know that the members here are held in a kind of awe by posters on "lesser" internet sites. (My inverted commas). I have seen several instances where people have said "why don't you ask those odd folks on AP?", but I feel they mean we're a bit odd, in the nicest possible way!

[Otto Puzzell]

but I feel they mean we're a bit odd, in the nicest possible way!

 

[datsone]

This site celebrates the diversity of automobile design and designers, their vision and - certainly - their hallucinations. I'm grateful I found out about it, although my wife is concerned about me spending even MORE time online looking at car pictures 

Thanks for feeding the addiction!

[Arunas]

Addiction is just the beginning