user191: Sometimes people post "where do I read/watch X" and it isn't phrased as looking for legal shop or streaming site links, so it could have been intended as looking for illegal sites. We seem to have agreed on editing it to be explicitly about legal links only, and then accept that question. In cases where OP is clearly not asking for that, we close it with our custom illegal links reason.
But are we okay with converting possibly  bad questions into somewhat less bad ones like that? Do you think they become useful to anyone and worth keeping around? Especially when asking about rather popular or mainstream works.
Some sites have a rule against asking "shopping questions" like "where can I buy " because they're largely useless and it's too easy to find it yourself if you just google "X buy". Do you think we should keep all our questions like that?
Sometimes there are cases I can agree we should keep, like asking where to buy a rare or specific version of a product which was discontinued or isn't sold in OP's region/country. But even so, do you think we should keep searching for people where to buy discs, printed manga books, etc?

user8486: I think questions about "where do I read/watch X" are not acceptable in more than 99% of the cases (that's probably worse than identification requests, and we got rid of that one), because think about it, how many of them aren't asking for illegal or copyrighted materials AND which you won't find on a legal distributor/broadcaster/official site? We already have this, this and this, enough info to answer almost everyone's calls, provided your region is not blocked from viewing the contents.
You could potentially ask this question for every tag there is/ever will be and in most cases they wouldn't be of interest to more than a few people. Heck, these kinds of questions don't even enrich our understanding of a series or anime/manga in general. They aren't even fun. Do you believe they have a place here?

user3561: All of these questioned should be marked as a duplicate of this question.  Ideally the title of that questions should be where can I watch shows online legally.  Alternatively, we can have a respectable user post a question and answer at the same time which points the user to "Can I Stream It" and the previously mentioned question.
These questions are only specific questions of that existing one.  Just closing the question without providing any support will push away potential new users.  Marking as a duplicate will push away a few who think this site is for conversations but still pretty much gives them the help they came here for.
My only issue is I don't know where such policies are listed.

191: <p>Sometimes people post "where do I read/watch X" and it isn't phrased as looking for legal shop or streaming site links, so it could have been intended as looking for illegal sites. We seem to have agreed on editing it to be explicitly about legal links only, and then accept that question. In cases where OP is clearly not asking for that, we close it with our custom illegal links reason.</p>

<p>But are we okay with converting possibly  bad questions into somewhat less bad ones like that? Do you think they become useful to anyone and worth keeping around? Especially when asking about rather popular or mainstream works.</p>

<p>Some sites have a rule against asking "shopping questions" like "where can I buy " because they're largely useless and it's too easy to find it yourself if you just google "X buy". Do you think we should keep all our questions like that?</p>

<p>Sometimes there are cases I can agree we should keep, like asking where to buy a rare or specific version of a product which was discontinued or isn't sold in OP's region/country. But even so, do you think we should keep searching for people where to buy discs, printed manga books, etc?</p>
 8486: <p>I think questions about "where do I read/watch X" are not acceptable in more than 99% of the cases (that's probably worse than identification requests, and we got rid of that one), because think about it, how many of them aren't asking for illegal or copyrighted materials AND which you won't find on a legal distributor/broadcaster/official site? We already have <a href="https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/a/923/8486">this</a>, <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8671/8486">this</a> and <a href="https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/9492/8486">this</a>, enough info to answer almost everyone's calls, provided your region is not blocked from viewing the contents.</p>

<p>You could potentially ask this question for every tag there is/ever will be and in most cases they wouldn't be of interest to more than a few people. Heck, these kinds of questions don't even enrich our understanding of a series or anime/manga in general. They aren't even fun. Do you believe they have a place here?</p>
 3561: <p>All of these questioned should be marked as a duplicate of <a href="https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/922/how-can-i-tell-if-a-site-is-legal/923#923">this question.</a>  Ideally the title of that questions should be where can I watch shows online legally.  Alternatively, we can have a respectable user post a question and answer at the same time which points the user to "Can I Stream It" and the previously mentioned question.</p>

<p>These questions are only specific questions of that existing one.  Just closing the question without providing any support will push away potential new users.  Marking as a duplicate will push away a few who think this site is for conversations but still pretty much gives them the help they came here for.</p>

<p>My only issue is I don't know where such policies are listed.</p>
