I posed a question about the whether or not the Springer show uses actors. I also wished to raise the issue of whether or not this occurs in other venues. I thought that I had phrased the question in such a way as to even qualify for GQ however I decided to be conservative and go with IMHO. I wanted the deeper replies that I felt tend to go with these forums. What might have been a better way to ask this question so as not to have gotten bumped to the gossip columns?
I’ve been wondering whether the Springer show uses actors and, if so, whether other shows behave in a similar fashion. If indeed they do, is there an ethical question here, or does anything go in the name of entertainment?
That should get you into GD.
There seems to be a pretty serious gravitational pull to Cafe Society for anything to do with books, movies, music, whatever, no matter how factual the answer is to your question. I think if you posted, “How many books did Robert Heinlein write?”, that’d get bumped to CS.
Oh, wait. This isn’t IMHO… :smack:
If you really wanted to keep it out of CS, you could have phrased it something like “How does superstring theory claim to reconcile General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics?”. Then you wouldn’t get any of those pesky folks who watch Jerry Springer.
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Deeper? In IMHO? You’re going to get the same answer wherever it lands, but the chances of the right person seeing it are going to increase if it lands in Cafe Society.
Hm. It seems that in CS, people would be more interested in hijacking the thread into a discussion of the last season and what the biggest fights have been over so far. In GQ, you can usually get an answer of the OP (if such an answer is known) before the hijackers take over.
It’s a slight problem in the “system”, so to speak. Some forums are based on the type of discussion you want: factual answers in GQ, unresolvable debates in GD, opinions in IMHO, etc. Some forums are based on the topic: questions About This Message Board, for instance, and Cafe Society for discussions relating to Arts & Entertainment.
Clearly, one could ask a “factual question” about a movie (“Who played Scarlett O’Hara?”) that seems to belong in GQ. One could ask a debatable question about a play (“Was Hamlet mad?”). One could ask opinions (“Would you like to be friends with Charles Foster Kane?”) We’ve decided that all such questions go into the Cafe Society forum. The reason we set up the Cafe Society in the first place was because were were getting all these TV/movie/music/etc questions spread all over the place. It was hellish to moderate, because one moderator would think a question was OK for GQ and another wouldn’t.
So, the best way to ask your question and keep it in IMHO would be (a) email the IMHO moderators to tell them what you’d like to do; and (b) word the question something like:
It does seem to me that, for this question, you’ll stand a better chance of getting an accurate answer from GQ or Cafe Society. In IMHO, you’ll get lots of opinions (usually stated as facts) but you won’t know whether they’re correct factually or just opinions.
May I suggest that the other problem is that you have three questions, two factual and one opinion. The factual questions about using actors could be asked either in GQ or CS–those are forums in which you are most likely to get quick and correct answers to the actor questions.
Then you could link to that thread, and ask your opinion question in IMHO–although it would be good to alert the moderator, as has been suggested, so it isn’t moved.